Land Settlement and Development Board Act (No. 14 of 1953)

LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Land Settlement and Development (CAP. 238 1 Board CHAPTER 238 THE LAND SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD (REPEAL) ACT Arrangement of Sections Section 1. Short title. Interpretation. Disposal of lands of the Board. Moveable property of Board. Leases and tenancy agreements. 6. Contracts. Liabilities. 8. General power to make orders for disposal of the Fund and transfer of the undertaking. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. (Repeal) LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Land Settlement and Development (CAP. 238 3 Board (Repeal) LAND SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD (REPEAL) An Act to repeal the Land Settlement and Development Board Act 1946, and to make provision in respect of the properties, rights and liabilities of the Board established by that Act. This Act may be cited as the Land Settlement and Development Board (Repeal) Act. 2. In this Interpretation. "Board" means the Board established under the provi sions of section 3 of the Land Settlement and Development Board Act, 1946; "Fund" means the Fund established under the provi sions of section 11 of the Land Settlement and Development Board Act, 1946. 3. All lands which, prior to the coming of the Board. into force of this Act, were owned in fee simple by the Board shall be deemed, on such coming into force, to have been surrendered to and to have vested absolutely in the Crown. 4. All moveable property of the Board to which the property of Cabinet may direct that this section shall apply shall be deemed, on the coming into force of this Act, to have been transferred to, and to have become the property of, the Government. 5. The benefit and burden of all leases and tenancy tenancy agreements in which the Board was tenant, immediately prior to the coming into force of this Act, shall be deemed, on such coming into force, to have been transferred from the Board to the Government. (1st January, 1954.) 1. Act immediately 14/1953. 18/1989. Short title. 7/1946. Disposal of lands Moveable Board. Leases and agreements. LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 4 CAP. 238) Land Settlement and Development Board (Repeal) Contracts. 6. The benefit and the burden of any contract made by the Board and in force immediately prior to the coming into force of this Act, being a contract to which the Cabinet may direct that this section shall apply, shall, on such com ing into force, be deemed to have been transferred from the Board to the Government. Liabilities. 7. The Cabinet may direct that any liability of the Board shall be deemed to have been transferred to, and become the liability of, the Government. General power to make orders for 8. The Cabinet may by order make such provision disposal as may appear to them Fund and transfer the ( a ) for disposal of any sums remaining in the Fund undertaking. at the commencement of this Act; and ( b ) for securing the transfer to the Government of the undertaking, or any part thereof, of the Board and for matters consequential thereon. of the of expedient