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Registration of Titles, Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) Act.

Country/Territory
Jamaica
Document type
Legislation
Date
2005 (2006)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Laws of Jamaica, 7 pp.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Cadastre/land registration Land tenure Land-use planning Special fund
Geographical area
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States
Abstract

This Act grants power to the Minister to declare an area to be a project area, so as to facilitate cadastral mapping and tenure clarification of that area, to exempt certain land from restrictions imposed by the Local Improvements Act, the Natural Resources Conservation Authority Act and the Town and Country Planning Act and to grant other exemptions regarding land registration and land tax. Other provisions of the Act concern registration of land in the project area and Land Administration and Management Programme Fund, which shall be used for the National Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification Programme.

Full text
English
Website
www.moj.gov.jm

References - Legislation

Amended by

Registration of Titles, Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act No. 6 of 2020.

Legislation | Jamaica | 2020

Keyword: Cadastre/land registration, Land tenure, Survey/mapping, Certification, Institution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX