This Act provides rules relative to the carrying out of land survey and creates the Land Surveyors Board. The Board shall maintain a register of surveyors, determine the qualifications and experience of surveyors and hear and determine disciplinary proceedings against surveyors in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
This Act makes provision with respect to the creation and registration of leases. There shall be a Land Leases Register for the registration of each lease required to be registered by this Act. The Act defines various conditions applying to a registered lease and the effects of registration. Other provisions of this Act concern other titles in land such as mortgages and easements, co-ownership, transmission, trusts, and cautions.
“Director” now means the Director of the department responsible for land". Section 2, here repealed, concerned the Director of Land Surveys. Consequentially, a reference in any other Act or instrument to the Director of Land Surveys shall be a reference to the Director of the department responsible for land.
Amends: Land Surveyors Act (Cap. 175). (1988)
There shall be maintained in Port Vila a Land Records Office in which shall be kept a register to be known as the Land Leases Register. A Director of Land Records shall be appointed under section 3. The Director shall prepare a survey plan for each parcel of land in accordance with section 10. Effects of registration are defined in section 14 and following. Section 27 defines the priority of registered instruments. Subject to the provisions of this Act (sections 32 to 50) and of any other law, the owner of land may lease the land or part of it to any person for a definite term.
There shall be a Director of Land Surveys who shall: (a) direct and control all public surveys; (b) supervise and control all other surveys; (c) examine all general and particular plans of surveys made in respect of leases of land; (c) approve such plans if satisfied that such surveys have been carried out and the plans prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and (d) carry out other functions outlined in section 2.
This Act consists of 66 sections divided into 6 Parts: Preliminary (1); Administration (2); Licences (3); Financial (4); Offences and penalties (5); General (6).Section1 contains a list of definitions. Sections 2 declares the property in, and control over, petroleum in its natural condition in land in the Republic is vested in the Republic and prohibits carrying on in any land in the Republic petroleum prospecting or development operations, except under, and in accordance with, a licence issued under this Act.
This Act allows the Minister to decide that the boundary of land or of any portion thereof should be more clearly defined or ascertained. For that purpose, the Minister may serve notice on the owner or occupier of any such land requiring him within the period specified in such notice, to clear, define, or otherwise ascertain the boundary of the land to the satisfaction of an official surveyor. A person who fails to comply with the terms of any notice shall be guilty of an offence.
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