The present Regulations enact section 29 of the Oil and Gas Act. In particular, the Regulations lay down provisions relating to oil and gas issues. For the purpose of the Regulations, “lease” means an oil and gas lease issued under Part 2 of the Act. The text consists of 65 sections divided into 5 Parts as follows: Dispositions generally (1); Oil and gas permits and leases (2); Registration of transfers and statutory notices (3); Oil and gas rights compensation (4); Commencement (5). One Schedule is enclosed.

Implements: Oil and Gas Act (R.S.Y. 2002, c. 162). (2016)

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.

This Act concerns the development of tenantries, i.e. 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 Minister may design tenantries for purposes of this Act, but only if there are not sufficient on the tenantry including water supply and sewage disposal. The Act sets out the procedure for the approval of development requests.

This Act requires tenancies for residential or business purposes to be registered with the Commissioner of Inland Revenue. The Act also defines certain duties of a landlord and defines certain actions of the landlord in the relationship with the tenant as an offence.

This Act makes provision for the registration of the ownership of land, lease and other title to land, and for this, and other purposes, establishes the Land Registry.

This Act contains rules regarding the relationship between landlord and tenant and makes provision with respect to judicial proceedings regarding the relationship between landlord and tenant.The provisions of this Act concern, among other things, payment of rent, distress for the non-payment of arrears of rent including seizure of crops or livestock, fraudulent removal of goods by tenants from leased premises, summary recovery of possessions and other legal actions, ejectment and compensation for crops, fruit trees and unexhausted farm works.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to public lands. The Minister shall have charge of the management, sale and disposition of the public lands and forests. For the purpose of the present Act “mines and minerals” includes gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and other mines and minerals, and quarries, and beds of stone, marble or gypsum. The text consists of 75 sections divided into 4 Parts as follows: Ministry of Natural Resource (I); Road on public lands (II); Provisions of general application (III); Construction of dams (IV).

The present Act lays down provisions dealing with agricultural leaseholds.

The present Act gives the Cabinet the ability to place conditions on the transfer or lease of lands listed in a Schedule to this Act. In particular, section 1 establishes that the Act applies to the lands, being the property of Her Majesty set out in the Schedule and to any other lands belonging to Her Majesty which may from time to time be added to the Schedule by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. The text consists of 5 sections.

This Act provides with respect to limitation of judicial action in relation with land-related rights. Actions include the recovery of land, rent or mortgage. The Act also concerns rights of tenants and the acquiescence of boundaries.

This Presidential Decree, for the purpose of reorganizing horticulture, fruit growing and viticulture cooperatives into farming enterprises, requires the reorganized cooperatives to: (a) preserve the existing specialization in the land lease agreement; and (b) be subject to liability to ensure the rational management of orchards, vineyards and water resources in accordance with limited water use contracts.

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 as they shall be expressly varied or excepted by any such enactment, shall apply to the undertaking authorized thereby, so far as the same shall be applicable to such undertaking, and shall form part of such enactment, and be construed together therewith as forming one enactment.