Section 31Record-of-rights and documents included therein

Read in the full Act

Section 31: Record-of-rights and documents included therein

31. Record-of-rights and documents included therein

(1)

Save as otherwise provided by this Chapter, there shall be record-of-rights for each estate.

(2)

The record-of-rights for an estate shall include the following documents, namely:—

(a)

statements showing, so far as may be practicable:—

(i)

the persons who are landowners, tenants or assignees of land-revenue in the estate, or who are entitled to receive any of the rents, profits or produce of the estate or to occupy land therein;

(ii)

the nature and extent of the interests of those persons, and the conditions and liabilities attaching thereto; and

(iii)

the rent, land-revenue, rates, cesses or other payments due from and to each of those persons and to the Government ;

(b)

a statement of customs respecting rights and liabilities in the estate;

(c)

a map of the estate; and

(d)

such other documents as the Financial Commissioner may, with the pervious sanction of the Local Government, prescribe.