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Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) (Amendment) Act, 2010 (Act No. 10 of 2010).

Country/Territory
Trinidad and Tobago
Document type
Legislation
Date
2010
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to amend the Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act, Chap. 59:54.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Land tenure Lease Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States
Abstract

This Act amends the Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act in section 4(3) by deleting the words “at least six months” and substituting the words “on or”. Section 4(2) provides that a statutory lease shall be a lease for thirty years commencing from the appointed day and, subject to subsection (3), renewable by the tenant for a further period of thirty years. Subsection 3 provided, with respect to the exercise such right of renewal, that the tenant shall serve on the landlord a written notice of renewal at least six months before the expiration of the original term of the statutory lease.

Full text
English
Website
www.ttparliament.org

References - Legislation

Amends

Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act (Cap. 59:54).

Legislation | Trinidad and Tobago | 1981 (2011)

Keyword: Land tenure, Lease, Contract/agreement, Dispute settlement, Transfer, Ownership, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX