Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

4.   Vesting of solid waste management facilities in the authority

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    (1)   The solid waste management facilities specified in Schedule 4, including the estate and the rights of the Crown in the land on which it is situated, including the surrounding land used at the commencement of this Act for the purposes of those facilities shall, subject to subsection (2), be vested in the Authority from the commencement of this Act.

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    (2)   The land shall vest in the Authority for so long only as the facilities continue to be used for the purposes of solid waste management and for the period of closure, post-closure and remediation on the cessation of use for those purposes.

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    (3)   Subject to subsection (4), the Authority may not alienate any such land or create any right over such land, whether or not the alienation or transfer is for valuable consideration, save under the authority of a Cabinet Conclusion approving that alienation or transfer, and any such Conclusion may require that all or any part of any valuable consideration for the alienation or transfer shall be paid over into the Consolidated Fund.

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    (4)   The Authority may, for the better discharge of its functions and without the authority of a Cabinet Conclusion, grant permission revocable at will, for the use of land vesting in it and may confer, for valuable consideration, contractual rights to use the land, but such permission or contractual rights shall not endure longer than the period of the vesting of the land in the Authority.