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State Lands Regulations.

Country/Territory
Guyana
Document type
Regulation
Date
1919 (1973)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Laws of Guyana, rev.ed., Chapter 62:01, 1977, pp. 16-70.
Subject
Forestry, Land & soil
Keyword
Timber extraction/logging Forest management/forest conservation Public land Survey/mapping Lease Agricultural land Range Right of use Land tenure Smallholders/peasants
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States, South America
Abstract

The Regulations provide in detail for Grants, licences and permissions (application, renewal, transfer, reversion) (Part I), Surveys (II), Sale of preferential claims in case of plurality of applications (III), Grants to small cultivators (IV), Leases (for agricultural and grazing purposes) (V), Permissions for grazing areas on the pasture lands of the interior (VI), Licences of Occupancy (VII), Licences to cut wood (VIII), Licences to collect balata, gums etc. (IX), Licences for quarrying stone, gravel, kaolin and other clays (X), Miscellaneous provisions (XI). The two Schedules deal with fees and forms.

Full text
English

References - Legislation

Implements

State Lands Act 1903 (Cap. 62:01).

Legislation | Guyana | 1903 (1989)

Keyword: Public land, Range, Land tenure, Sustainable development

Source: FAO, FAOLEX