During the second session the government introduced
An Act to prohibit the Sale of Lands to any Enemy Aliens and Hutterites for the Duration of the War (Bill 60), which prohibited the purchase or registration of lands by an
enemy alien or
Hutterite. It was the intention to prevent these people from buying land or from becoming registered as the owners of land at least until after the
Second World War ended. The government later introduced
An Act to amend The Land Sales Prohibition Act (Bill 48) in the third session, which amended
The Land Sales Prohibition Act for the purpose of extending this prohibition to leases and agreements for leases. The federal government under Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King's Cabinet
disallowed the legislation on the recommendation of the Federal Minister of Justice
Louis St. Laurent. This was the last use of the federal disallowance authority (not to be confused with reservation authority, which was last used in Saskatchewan in 1961). The King government's rationale for the disallowance was that the federal government had regulated all matters related to enemy aliens and the statute conflicted with federal policy. ==Party standings after 9th General Elections==