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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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69. Stamps

An instrument required by law to be stamped shall not be accepted for registration unless it is duly stamped.

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

17. General boundaries

18. Fixed boundaries

19. Maintenance of 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

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

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

57. Conditional transfers not registrable

58. Transfer of part

59. Transfer of unregistered leases

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

70. Disposal of instruments

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

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

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

106. Effect of appeals on disposition

107. Appeal rules

108A. Identification

109. Service of notices

110. Meaning of “opportunity of being heard”

113. Recovery of fees and expenses

114. Enforcement of Registrar's orders for payment

115. Jurisdiction of Courts

117. Saving of rights

118. Act to bind Crown

20. Interference with boundary features

Land registration Rules – Section 16

88. Withdrawal and removal of cautions