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Local Governance Act, 2016 (No. 8 of 2016).

Legislation
February, 2016
Jamaica
land-use planning
land governance
public ownership
This Act provides with respect to local government in Jamaica.
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Landlord and Tenant (No. 2) Act (Cap. 162).

Legislation
January, 1730
Bahamas, Aruba, Anguilla, American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Belize, Barbados, Cook Islands, Comoros, Cape Verde, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Micronesia, Guinea-Bissau, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Niue, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, French Polynesia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, Sint Maarten, Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Americas, Caribbean
leases
land tenure
This Act makes provision for the payment of compensation for withholding of property by persons acting in collusion with tenants and for the recovery of non-paid rent. The Act also makes provision for the renewal of leases without the surrender of land.
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Crown Property (Vesting) (Amendment) Act, 2013 (No. 23 of 2013).

An Act to amend the Crown Property (Vesting) Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
public ownership
This Act amends the Crown Property (Vesting) Act so as to establish a National Divestment Committee to advise Minister responsible for Land and Environment. It also empowers the Minister making a divestment Order to exempt certain categories of divestment being routed through the newly established Committee.

Amends: Crown Property (Vesting) Act. (1973)
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Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
land-use planning
leases
This Act establishes the Real Estate Board and provides rules for the registration and operation of real estate dealers, real estate salesmen and real estate developers. It also provides for certain matters regarding development schemes and for inspection by real estate inspectors. Engaging in real estate business for purposes of this Act includes lease of land and the management of land. The functions of the Board shall be to regulate and control the practice of real estate business, the disposition of land in development schemes and the operation of such schemes.
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Parish Councils Act (Cap. 271).

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
public ownership
grazing
This Act makes provision for the constitution of Parish Councils in Jamaica, defines their functions and powers, and provides with respect to their election, organization and administration and other relevant matters. Parish Councils shall be corporations and shall be successors to Municipal Boards, the Boards of Parochial Roads Commissioners and Parochial Boards constituted under the Parochial Boards Law, 1885.
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Parochial Water Works Charges Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
public ownership
This Act stipulates that a Parish Council of a parish shall charge for the supply of all water from the water works in such parish in accordance with rules to be made by such Council, provided that the Minister may at any time, and from time to time, by Order, provide for the free distribution of water to specified persons or class of persons. The Act also provides for the definition of public land belonging to waterworks and for the punishment of trespass of such land.
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Rent Restriction Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
leases
The Act concerns the control of rent for purposes of protection of tenants. It applies to: (a) dwelling houses; (b) all building land (c) public or commercial buildings. Agricultural land seems to be excluded from the application of the Act. The landlord and the tenant shall be deemed to have inserted in every tenancy agreement or lease the covenants set out in the First Schedule and shall be bound by those covenants.
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Bodies Corporate (Joint Tenancy) Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
land ownership
This Act provides defines certain rights of bodies corporate in respect of property. A body corporate shall be capable of acquiring and holding any real or personal property in joint tenancy in the same manner as if it were an individual but the acquisition and holding of property by a body corporate in joint tenancy shall be subject to the like conditions and restrictions as attach to the acquisition and holding of property by a body corporate in severalty.
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Real Property Representative Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
Land & Gender
land inheritance rights
land ownership
This Act provides that real estate over which a person executes by will a general power of appointment, as if it were real estate vested in him, without a right in any other person to take by survivorship, shall on his death, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition, devolve to and become vested in his personal representative(s), as if it were a chattel real vesting in them or him.
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Law Reform (Protection and Enforcement of Public Rights) Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
public ownership
This Act stipulates that, notwithstanding any provision in any enactment or any rule of law, a person may, in the public interest and without the consent of the Attorney-General, make an application to the Supreme Court for the protection and enforcement of public rights. Such application shall not be made unless leave of the Supreme Court has been obtained in accordance with rules of court; and the Court shall not grant leave to make such an application unless it considers that the applicant has a sufficient interest in the matter to which the application relates.