Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

• 1.   Short title

• 2.   Interpretation

• 3.   Application of this Act

• 4.   Registration district

• 5.   Administration of Land Registry

• 6.   General powers of Registrar

• 7.   Indemnity of officers

• 8.   Seal of Registry

• 9.   The Land Register and the Land Adjudication Act

• 10.   Compilation of the Land Register

• 11.   Registration

• 12.   Cancellation of obsolete entries

• 13.   New editions of Register

• 14.   Registry Map and Land Adjudication

• 15.   Correction of the Registry Map and new editions

• 16.   Mutation

• 17.   General boundaries

• 18.   Fixed boundaries

• 19.   Maintenance of boundary features

• 20.   Interference with boundary features

• 21.   Combinations and subdivisions

• 22.   Reparcellation

• 23.   Effect of registration with absolute title

• 24.   Effect of registration with provisional title

• 25.   Effect of registration of a lease

• 26.   Effect of Registration of Crown Land

• 27.   Voluntary transfer

• 28.   Overriding interests

• 29.   Conversion of provisional into absolute title

• 30.   Entries to constitute actual notice

• 31.   Land certificates and certificates of lease

• 32.   Production of certificate

• 33.   Dispositions of leases and hypothecs

• 34.   Lost or destroyed certificates

• 35.   Searches and copies

• 36.   Evidence

• 37.   Subsequent dealings

• 38.   Protection of persons dealing in registered land

• 39.   Additional fee for delayed registration

• 40.   Power to compel registration

• 41.   Priority of registered interests

• 42.   Stay of registration

• 43.   Merger of registered interests

• 44.   Leases

• 45.   Registration of leases

• 46.   Lessor's consent to dealing with lease

• 47.   Substitution of leases

• 48.   Surrender of leases

• 49.   Determination of leases

• 50.   Voluntary registration of leases

• 51.   Form and effect of hypothecs

• 52.   Creditor's consent to transfer

• 53.   Variation of hypothecs

• 54.   Discharge of hypothec

• 55.   Satisfaction of hypothecs

• 56.   Transfers

• 57.   Conditional transfers not registrable

• 58.   Transfer of part

• 59.   Transfer of unregistered leases

• 60.   Servitudes

• 61.   Release and extinguishment of servitude

• 62.   Registration of more than one proprietor

• 63.   Characteristics of proprietorship in common

• 64.   Partition of land owned by proprietors in common

• 65.   When Registrar may order sale

• 66.   Procedure where share is small

• 67.   Form of instrument

• 68.   Execution of instruments

• 69.   Stamps

• 70.   Disposal of instruments

• 71.   Minors

• 72.   Agents and persons under disability

• 73.   Gift to person under disability

• 74.   Powers of attorney

• 75.   Effect of registered power of attorney

• 76.   Transmission on death of sole proprietor or proprietor in common

• 77.   Effect of transmission by death

• 78.   Transmission on bankruptcy

• 79.   Liquidation

• 80.   Transmission by compulsory acquisition or judgment of court

• 81.   Trusts

• 82.   Survivor of Trustees

• 83.   Power of Court to inhibit registered dealings

• 84.   Effect of inhibition

• 85.   Cancellation of inhibition

• 86.   Lodging of cautions

• 87.   Notice and effect of cautions

• 88.   Withdrawal and removal of cautions

• 89.   Second caution in respect of the same matter

• 90.   Wrongful cautions

• 91.   Restrictions

• 92.   Notice and effect of restrictions

• 93.   Removal and variation of restrictions

• 94.   Acquisition of land by prescription

• 95.   Procedure when land acquired by prescription

• 96.   Registration of servitudes acquired by prescription

• 97.   Rectification by Registrar

• 98.   Rectification by Court

• 99.   Right to Compensation

• 100.   Amount of Compensation

• 101.   Procedure for claiming compensation

• 102.   Recovery of compensation paid

• 103.   Errors in survey

• 104.   Power of Registrar to state case

• 105.   Appeals

• 106.   Effect of appeals on disposition

• 107.   Appeal rules

• 108.   Addresses

• 108A.   Identification

• 109.   Service of notices

• 110.   Meaning of “opportunity of being heard”

• 111.   Offences

• 112.   Fees

• 113.   Recovery of fees and expenses

• 114.   Enforcement of Registrar's orders for payment

• 115.   Jurisdiction of Courts

• 116.   Rules

• 117.   Saving of rights

• 118.   Act to bind Crown