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   Tenantries Freehold Purchase Act.

   An Act to provide a right for tenants of lots in certain tenantries to purchase the freehold in those lots; to alter section 16 of the Constitution to assure the constitutionality of that right; and to provide for matters related or incidental thereto.

   Legislation

   Barbados, Americas, Caribbean

   Land Conflicts

   farmland

   coastal areas

   land management

   land dispute resolution

   leases

   land ownership

   This Act regulates the purchase of freeholds in tenantries. A tenantry means a tenantry specified in the First Schedule (a plantation tenantry) and an area of land, including public land, subdivided before a specified date into lots for letting for specified purposes. “Tenantry” does not include land adjoining the foreshore. The purpose of this Act is to establish by law a right for tenants of lots in tenantries who satisfy the requirements of this Act to purchase the freehold at a purchase price governed by considerations of public policy and the requirements of the Constitution.

2. Library Resource

   

   Agricultural Holdings (Option to Purchase) Act.

   An Act to make provision respecting the purchase by tenants of agricultural holdings for the purpose of facilitating agricultural development in Barbados.

   Legislation

   Barbados, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   public ownership

   farmland

   This Act prescribes that it shall be a term or condition of every tenancy of an agricultural holding of a plantation specified in the First Schedule to this Act that a qualified tenant may purchase the freehold of that agricultural holding at a price to be agreed upon between the landlord and tenant. “Agricultural holding” is defined by the Security of Tenure of Small Holdings Act. A qualified tenant is a tenant that has been cultivating the holding for a specified number of years. An option to purchase shall be exercised in the form as set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.