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 infrastructure improvements at the local level and related matters.The Minister may declare, by Order, special improvements (infrastructure) areas for purposes of this Act for lands intended for community development and subdivision for this purpose. Infrastructure shall…

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 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 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…

These Regulations implement provisions of the Farm Loans Act regarding restrictions on loans, maximum time of repayment, default in repayment, etc. The Regulations also prescribe various forms for purposes of the Act.
Implements: Farm Loans Act. (1976)

These Regulations provide rules for the removal of sand and gravel in the Corporate Area of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. Removal of sand, gravel or other material from watercourses or river beds requires a licence from the Council of the Corporation to be granted in accordance with…

This Act grants power to the Jamaica Mortgage Bank to effect contracts of insurance for loans insurable under this Act. Loans include loans for the purchase of agricultural land and loans secured by a first mortgage on agricultural land or not exceeding twenty-five years in term. The Act also…