The Act makes provision for prescription in respect of claims relative Common Law, by custom, prescription or grant, to any right of common or other profit or benefit to be taken and enjoyed from or upon any land or in respect of a watercourse or the use of any water.

This Act concerns legal proceedings and proof regarding the ascertainment or evidence of title in land or interest in any estate.The Act sets out the procedures for obtaining a certificate of title and the effects of a certificate of title. The Act also allows a person to request a court to…

This Act makes provision in relation with selected matters concerning real property such as the status of all corporeal tenements and hereditaments, the validity of certain acts such as feoffments, partitions, exchanges, leases and of interests in tenements and hereditaments and the status of a…

This Act makes provision for land reclamation and drainage of land ordered by the State. The Act shall apply in parts of the Bahamas that are declared by the Minister to be a reclamation area for purposes of this Act. The Minister may order landowners in a reclamation area to carry out land…

This Act makes provision for duties and proceedings in relation with the ending of a tenancy of a small tenement, i.e. any premises held by the tenant at will or for any term not exceeding one year and at a maximum specified rent.The Act provides for recovery of possessions and legal actions…

This Act makes provision for the formation and administration of “Local Improvement Associations" and defines rights and duties of such associations. An association may be formed by owners of lots of a sub-divided estate for the purpose of the carrying out of works in common and various…

This Act creates a general validation of acts of conveyances, for which no or no adequate compensation has been given to the conveyor, of real and personal property including leases, mortgages and any other instrument purporting to effect the transfer of any estate or interest in real or…

This Act makes provision with respect to The Bahamas Mortgage Corporation which shall be instrumental in the granting of mortgages for the acquisition of real property by private persons. The Minister may make such Regulations as he or she deems necessary for carrying out the provisions of this…

This Order concerns the procedures for the issuing of bonds by The Bahamas Mortgage Corporation, the registration of such bonds and rights of holders of such bonds and related matters.
Implements: Bahamas Mortgage Corporation Act (Cap. 254). (1992)

These Bye-laws are made under subsection (4) of section 9 of the Land Surveyors Act which provides that the Bahamas Association of Land Surveyors, established under the Act, shall have power to make rules or Bye-laws not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act for the regulation of its…

These Regulations prescribe rules relative to the conduct and practice of land surveyors authorized to act as such under the Land Surveyors Act. The rules concern, among other things, the form and content of a survey including the marking of boundaries, the duty to report to the Surveyor General…

These Regulations implement provisions of the Conservation and Protection of the Physical Landscape of The Bahamas Act, 1997 concerning the application for, and the granting of, permits for excavation or landfill operations or the to harvesting of protected trees and a licence to quarry or mine…