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This Act provides for the conservation of land in St. Lucia, for the establishment of a Board to be known as the Land Conservation Board, for conferring on that Board functions as to land, and for purposes connected therewith or incidental thereto. Land is defined as including land covered by water and in fact this Act contains provisions on drainage works. The main functions of the Board shall be to advise the Minister responsible for Agriculture and Lands on the general supervision of land and water resources, to recommend legislation, coordinate efforts of other conservation bodies, to advise the Development Control Authority on land conservation and improvement, and to offer technical advice to landowners/occupiers in the field of land management. The Board has the power to make Protection Orders relating to specific lands mentioned in schedule two (Model Farmlands, Mabouya Valley Development Project Lands), General Protection Orders and Specific Protection Orders which must specify the land to which they apply. It is an offense to fail to comply with the provisions of such Orders. Section 12 empowers the Board to declare any Crown land to be a conservation area. The Board must also prepare a long-term management plan and regulations for its protection, holding at least one public meeting within the proposed area. Any interested person may make formal objections etc., within 14 days of the last public viewing. Conservation Officers shall be appointed to assist the Board in supervising the use of and encouraging conservation and improvement of land and water resources. The remainder of the Act concerns legal/administrative procedures. The First schedule spells out the composition, etc. of the Board as well as other personnel matters.
