Palestine: Custodian of Enemy Property: Registered Files

Collection

Title (official language):: Palestine: Custodian of Enemy Property: Registered Files

Scope and content:: The papers in this series are all that are known to survive of the records of the Palestine Custodian of Enemy Property.

Administrative/biographical history:: After the passing of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 and the appointment by Orders under it of Custodians of Enemy Property in the United Kingdom, the officers administering colonial territories made ordinances, and Orders under them, to the same effect.The Palestine Trading with the Enemy Ordinance 1939 (No 36 of 1939) was enacted on 5 September 1939, with retrospective effect from 3 September. A Custodian of Enemy Property was appointed by the High Commissioner on 28 September 1939 under section 9 of the Ordinance, and a Trading with the Enemy (Custodian) Order was made under the same section on 1 November 1939.By an Order in Council of 15 May 1948 (1948/1003), under the Palestine Act 1948, property vested in the Custodian of Enemy Property in Palestine was transferred to the Custodian of Enemy Property for England.

Access, restrictions:: UK public records, open for research unless otherwise stated in The National Archives' catalogue

Finding aids:: More information is available in The National Archives' catalogue.

Research guidance is available on The National Archives' website.

Links to finding aids:: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5233; https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/jews-and-jewish-communities-18th-20th-centuries/