Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

7.   Staying of land suits

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    (1)   Where a notice of completion of the adjudication record is given in accordance with section 19, no document relating to the dealings in lands within the adjudication section to which the notice refers may be accepted by the Registrar of Deeds and Mortgages, unless it is endorsed by the adjudication officer that the adjudication record has been amended with the consent of all claimants to the interest in the land being the subject of the dealing.

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    (2)   Except with the consent in writing of the adjudication officer, no action claiming an interest in land or rights to land in an adjudication section shall be initiated in any civil court until all proceedings under this Act have been completed.

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    (3)   Upon the application of any party interested in the subject matter of an action claiming an interest in land or rights to land in an adjudication section instituted before the publication of the notice mentioned in section 6, the court may stay the hearing of such action and refer it to the adjudication officer.

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    (Substituted by Act 8 of 1986)