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CORPORATE BODIES’ LANDS ACT (NO. 2) 1936

1936 : 48

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

Body corporate acquiring land must deposit memorandum in office of Land Title Registrar

1 Every body corporate, whether incorporated in Bermuda or elsewhere, now holding or hereafter acquiring any land in Bermuda in fee simple absolute or subject to a quit rent or rent charge or for a term exceeding twenty-one years shall, within three months after the land has been acquired, deposit in the office of the Land Title Registrar a memorandum in writing setting forth the description and area of such land, and the estate or interest therein of the body corporate, together with a copy of the lot plan and the grid reference of the approximate centre of the lot, using the Bermuda National Grid 2000: Provided that nothing in the foregoing provision of this section shall apply or have effect in relation to a body corporate that has deposited such memorandum and documents under section 102 (1) of the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1956. [Section 1 repealed and replaced by 2007:16 s.22 & Sch effective 22 June 2007; heading and section amended by 2017 : 9 s. 11 effective 20 February 2017]

CORPORATE BODIES’ LANDS ACT (NO. 2) 1936

Body corporate disposing of land must deposit documents in office of Land Title Registrar

2 Every such body corporate which sells or otherwise disposes of any land in respect of which a memorandum or document was deposited under section 1 shall, within three months of such sale or disposition, deposit in the office of the Land Title Registrar a memorandum in writing setting forth the description and area of such land and the estate or interest therein so sold or disposed of together with a copy of the lot plan and the grid reference of the approximate centre of the lot, using the Bermuda National Grid 2000. [Section 2 repealed and replaced by 2007:16 s.22 & Sch effective 22 June 2007; heading and section amended by 2017 : 9 s. 11 effective 20 February 2017]

Offence

3 Any body corporate which fails to deposit any such memorandum and section of the ordnance map as required by the foregoing provisions of this Act commits an offence against this Act: Punishment on summary conviction: a fine of $720 in respect of each month or part of a month during which such failure continues.

Register to be kept

4 The Land Title Registrar shall keep a register, by parishes, of land held by bodies corporate in Bermuda. [Section 4 amended by 2017 : 9 s. 11 effective 20 February 2017]

Annual return by Land Title Registrar

5 In the month of January in every year the Land Title Registrar shall forward to the Governor, for the information of the Legislature, a return showing the area of land in each parish held in the manner specified in section 1, by bodies corporate on the thirty-first day of December of the previous year. [Section 5 heading and section amended by 2017 : 9 s. 11 effective 20 February 2017]

6. Petition to Governor for extension of time

(1) Notwithstanding sections 1 and 2 the Governor may extend the time within which a body corporate shall deposit in the office of the Land Title Registrar the requisite memorandum.

(2) With respect to any extension of time that may be allowed by the Governor under subsection (1)—

(a) the body corporate shall submit a written petition to the Governor setting out the period of default in respect of the deposit of the requisite memorandum and the circumstances which have occasioned such default;

(b) the Governor after considering the petition may by certificate extend the time within which the memorandum is to be deposited on condition that the body corporate who submitted the petition pay into the Consolidated

CORPORATE BODIES’ LANDS ACT (NO. 2) 1936

Fund, within such time as the Governor may specify, such sum not exceeding $24 as the Governor may direct. [Section 6 subsection (1) amended by 2017 : 9 s. 11 effective 20 February 2017]

Restriction on prosecution under section 3 in event of petition to Governor

7 Where a body corporate submits to the Governor a petition for extension of time in which to deposit the requisite memorandum, no proceedings under section 3 shall be instituted against such body corporate until the decision of the Governor is made known.

[Assent Date: 11 December 1936]

[This Act incorporates the provisions of the Corporate Bodies’ Lands (Extension of Time) Act 1958 [1958:94] as amended by 1961:1]

[Amended by:

1951 : 78

1952 : 11

1955 : 35

1971 : 83

2007 : 16

2017 : 9]