LAND AND TITLES (AMENDMENT)act 2016

(No. 1of 2016)

LAND AND TITLES (AMENDMENT)act 2016
(No. 1 of 2016)

PASSED by the National Parliament this twenty-seventh day of April 2016.
(This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

Clezy Rore
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf thiseighteenth day of May 2015.

Mr. Ajilon Jasper Nasiu
Acting Governor-General

Date of Commencement: see section 2.

AN ACTTO AMEND THE LAND AND TITLES ACT (CAP. 133) TO PROVIDE A RIGHT TO RESUME CERTAIN FIXED TERM ESTATES.
ENACTEDBY THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT OF SOLOMON ISLANDS.

LAND AND TITLES (AMENDMENT)ACT2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS
1	Short title	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Amendment of Land and Titles Act	1

LAND AND TITLES (AMENDMENT)ACT 2016
1	Short title
This Act may be cited as the Land and Titles (Amendment)Act 2016.
2	Commencement
This Act commences on the day appointed by the Minister by Gazette notice.
3	Amendment of Land and Titles Act
The Land and Titles Act (Cap. 133) is amended by inserting the following section after section 142:
“142A	Resumption of certain fixed term estates
	(1)	This section applies to a fixed term estate created under section 100.
	(2)	The Board may resume all or part of the estate to use the relevant land for public purposes by:
(a)	giving the owner of the estate 6 months written notice of the resumption; and
(b)	paying the owner reasonable compensation for the resumption.
	(3)	In determining the amount of reasonable compensation for the resumption, the Board must consider the following:
(a)	whether the owner of the estate has improved the land and, if so, the value of the improvements; 
(b)	the remaining period for which the owner would have held the estate if it were not resumed;
(c)	the condition of the land subject to the estate at the time of resumption.”