This Act defines the liability of an occupier of premises for injury to persons or damage caused to goods and resulting from actions or omissions of the occupier in respect of the occupied property. The Act also defines the liability of a landlord under the obligation of maintenance or repair of…

This Act sets out rules relative to conveyancing of title in property, including land, and related matters such as rights related to leases and mortgages.The rules concern, among other things, contracts of sale, procedures for transactions, the role of court in case of encumbrances or other…

This Act makes provision for the recording of certain legal deeds and patents and the effect of such recording and prescribes penalties for the selling or mortgaging of land, tenements and hereditaments twice.The Act sets out certain conditions for a transfer of any freehold or inheritance and…

This Act concerns the validation of bona fide voluntary conveyance of lands, tenements or hereditaments. “Conveyance” includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in specified enactments. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any…

This Act shall apply to every undertaking authorized by any subsequent enactment (called “Special Statute”) which shall authorize the purchase or taking of lands for such undertaking and this Act shall be incorporated with such enactment. All the clauses and provisions of this Act, save so far…

This Act establishes the Jamaica Development Bank as a body corporate and provides for its functions and powers and organization.The Bank shall be responsible for providing capital for development in Jamaica including agricultural development for which a division in the Bank shall be created.…

This Act sets out rules for the sale, partition, lease, administration by trustees, mortgaging, exchange, etc. of settled land and certain rights related to the use of such land. The Act sets out criteria and definitions as to what land is considered settled land. It defines the right of a…

This Act provides rules relative to acquisition of land and other property by the State for public purposes.It sets out procedures and conditions for acquisition either by agreement or on the basis of unilateral action by the Commissioner of Lands. In both cases, a declaration of the Minister…

This Act grants power to the Minister to declare an area where the government carries out improvement works to be an improvement area, to classify properties within such area and to impose a land improvement tax on such properties. Objections against classifications may be raised with the…

This Act lays down rules for the registration of surveyors and the carrying out of land surveys of public and private land and provides for the establishment of the Land Surveyors Board. The Act also provides for government survey, defines powers of government surveyors and provides for the…

This Act amends the Land Tax Act by inserting various sections relating to tax rates for special cases and by modifying section 44a on false declarations.
Amends: Land Tax Act. (2003)

This Act amends the Town and Country Planning Act by adding a new Part IVA on an agreement with the Crown on planning obligations by a person who applies to the Chief Town Planner for a planning permission to develop land. The Act also grants powers to the Minister to make rules relative to…