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Town and Country Planning (Trelawny Parish) Provisional Development Order, 2013 (No. 89B of 2013).

Regulations
June, 2013
Jamaica
land-use planning
This Order, made under section 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act, provides for a wide variety of matters regarding the administration and development of the Trelawny Parish Development Area. Matters regulated by this Order include planning permission for development, control on subdivision of land, consultation with national authorities by the local planning authority before granting planning permission, appeals. The Second Schedule sets out Use Classes. The Third Schedule sets out Permitted Development. The Fifth Schedule sets out the Planning Framework for the development area.
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Town and Country Planning (Negril and Green Island Area) Provisional Development Order, 2013 (No. 56F of 2013).

Regulations
March, 2013
Jamaica
land-use planning
This Order, made under section 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act, provides for a wide variety of matters regarding the administration and development of the Negril and Green Island Development Area. Matters regulated by this Order include planning permission for development, control on subdivision of land, consultation with national authorities by the local planning authority before granting planning permission, appeals. The local planning authority may be grant permission subject to conditions as may be imposed by the Minister. The Second Schedule sets out Use Classes.
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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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Town and Country Planning (Saint Mary) Provisional Development Order, 2017 (No. 41C of 2017).

Regulations
January, 2017
Jamaica
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmland
land-use planning
natural resources management
land subdivision
environment
fisheries
waste (abuse)
This Order, made under section 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act, provides for a wide variety of matters regarding the administration and development of the Saint Mary Parish Development Area as described in the First Schedule.
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Special Economic Zones Act, 2016 (No. 7 of 2016).

Legislation
February, 2016
Jamaica
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
environment
cadastres
land registration
This Act concerns the development, regulation, construction, management and control of Special Economic Zones in Jamaica. It establishes the Special Economic Zone Authority, which shall be a body corporate. It also creates a Special Economic Zone Fund. The Authority shall establish procedures for the marketing, initiation and conduct of negotiations in relation to the making of applications by sponsors for the entry into master-concessions and licence-agreements.
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Natural Resources Conservation (Permits and Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (G.N. 51C of 2015).

Regulations
April, 2015
Jamaica
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
protected areas
These Regulations amend the Natural Resources Conservation (Permits and Licences) Regulations 1996 by replacing regulation 3 relating to a grant of a permit to undertake an enterprise, construction or development of a prescribed description or category and by inserting new regulations (7A-D) on the grant of a renewal of a permit. Amendment are also made to the Fist Schedule (Forms) and regulation 24 and Schedule 2 (fees).

Amends: Natural Resources Conservation (Permits and Licences) Regulations 1996. (2000)
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Natural Resources (Prescribed Areas) (Prohibition of Categories of Enterprise, Construction and Development) (Amendment) Order, 2015 (No. 51A of 2015).

Regulations
April, 2015
Jamaica
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
protected areas
This Order amends the Natural Resources (Prescribed Areas) (Prohibition of Categories of Enterprise, Construction and Development) Order, 1996 to provide for transitional arrangements with respect to a permit for an undertaking any category of enterprise, construction or development to which the requirement for a permit did not apply before 1 April 2015 and to modify the list of enterprise, construction or development to which the principal Order applies.
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Registration of Titles Regulations.

Regulations
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
cadastres
land registration
These Regulations implement provisions of the Registration of Titles Act in relation with the certificate of title.

Implements: Registration of Titles Act. (2006)
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Registration (Strata Titles) (Amendment) Act, 2013 (No. 34 of 2013).

An Act to amend the Registration (Strata Titles) Act.

Legislation
Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean
cadastres
land subdivision
land registration
This Act amends the Registration (Strata Titles) Act. It, among other things, replacing in section 4 the words "corporation" with "commission". Section 4 concerns the corporation to be constituted by strata lot owners.
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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)