Registered Land (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2017 (No. 45 of 2017)

BELIZE: REGISTERED LAND (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) ACT, 2017 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 1. Short title. 2. Amendment of section 5. 3. Amendment of section 6. 4. Amendment of section 19. No. 45] Registered Land 429 AN ACT to further amend the Registered Land Act, Chapter 194 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011, to establish the Land Registry as a Department of Government in the interest of administrative and operational efficiency; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. (Gazetted 4th November, 2017). BE IT ENACTED, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives and Senate of Belize and by the authority of the same as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the REGISTERED LAND (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) ACT, 2017, Short title. No. 45 of 2017 I assent, (SIR COLVILLE N. YOUNG) Governor-General 2nd November, 2017. and shall be read and construed as one with the Registered Land Act, which as amended, is referred to as the principal Act. 2. The principal Act is amended in section 5 by deleting the words “Land Registry” and substituting the words “ Department of Government to be called the Land Registry,” 3. The principal Act is amended in section 6 by repealing subsection (1). 4. The principal Act is amended in section 19(2) by deleting the full stop and inserting immediately after the word “person” the words “, but no such correction shall be effected except with the written consent of the Registrar.” 430 Registered Land [No. 45 CAP. 194. 5 of 2017. Amendment of section 5. Amendment of section 6. Amendment of section 19. Printed in Belize by the Government Printer