Laurier House Act (R.S.C. 1952, c. 163)

Short Title

Marginal note:Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Laurier House Act.

Marginal note:Agency to control Laurier House

• 2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Parks Canada Agency established under the Parks Canada Agency Act (in this Act referred to as the “Agency”) has the care, custody and control of Laurier House (described in the First Schedule) and its contents and shall administer the House and its contents in accordance with the desires and purposes expressed in the late Mr. King’s Will (the relevant portion of which is set out in the Second Schedule).

• Marginal note:Heating and repair

  (2) The Minister of Public Works and Government Services shall maintain, heat and keep in repair the buildings on the Laurier House property and the Federal District Commission shall maintain the grounds thereof.

• (3) [Repealed, 1998, c. 31, s. 52]

Marginal note:C.R.F.

• 3 (1) The sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars given by the Will to the Government of Canada shall be deposited to the credit of the Receiver General of Canada and shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

• Marginal note:Trust Account

  (2) There shall be set up in the Consolidated Revenue Fund an account to be known as the Mackenzie King Trust Account to which there shall be credited the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Interest

  (3) Interest on the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars shall be credited to the Mackenzie King Trust Account at the end of each fiscal year

  • (a) in the case of the fiscal year during which the said sum was deposited to the credit of the Receiver General of Canada, for the period in the year after the day on which the deposit was made, and

  • (b) in the case of each subsequent fiscal year, for the whole year,

  computed at a rate that, in the opinion of the Minister of Finance, is equal to the average rate at which interest is payable on long term Government of Canada bonds for that year.

• Marginal note:Expenditures

  (4) Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the Agency may, at any time, expend out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, for the purpose of carrying out the desires and purposes expressed in the Will, an amount not exceeding the aggregate of the amounts theretofore credited to the Mackenzie King Trust Account as interest less the aggregate of all amounts theretofore expended under this subsection, and any amount so expended shall be debited to the Account.

Marginal note:Historic Sites and Monuments Board

4 The Chief Executive Officer of the Agency may consult the Historic Sites and Monuments Board with reference to the performance of the duties of the Agency under this Act.

Marginal note:Governor in Council may give directions

5 Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, the Federal District Commission and the Agency shall comply with any general or special direction of the Governor in Council as to the manner in which Laurier House shall be administered or as to the manner in which the desires or purposes expressed in the Will shall be realized.