bahamaslandreform.gov.bs Land Registration Bill : Bahamas Reform

Organisation : Bahamas Land Reform
Facility Name : Land Registration Bill
Country : Bahamas
Website : https://bahamaslandreform.gov.bs/

What is Bahamas Land Registration Bill?

The new Land Registration Bill represents a significant step forward in ensuring that land transactions in The Bahamas are transparent, efficient, and secure. Join us in this journey towards modernized conveyancing and secured land tenure, and be part of a brighter future for The Bahamas.

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Benefits of Land Registration

** Security of tenure
** Greater efficiency in property taxation
** New government fees through land searches of the Register
** Enhanced land transfer taxes
** More marketable titles
** Access to credit
** Reduction in land disputes
** Conveyancing by registration
** Facilitating land reform
** Management of Crown and Government Lands
** Improvements in mapping
** Support for land resource management

New Registered Land Bill Objects and Reasons

** Certainty of ownership of interests in land
** Simplifying proof of ownership
** Facilitates the economic and efficient execution of transactions concerning interests in land
** Compensation for persons who sustain a loss
** Establish a parcel-based register for land title
** Use of a Unique Parcel Reference Number of land
** Legal ownership in land by registration
** Priority for enforcement of interests by time and date
** Establish procedures to manage the land registration
** Establish rights of appeal.
** Maintain records in the prescribed format, and
** Procedures for compensating persons

New Land Adjudication Bill Objects and Reasons

** Provides for a process of systematic adjudication of land title to demarked areas of The Bahamas
** Appoints a special Adjudication Officer, who has the qualification of a Supreme Court Judge
** Set out the procedure to be followed by the Adjudication Officer
** Specifies the principles to be followed in preparing the adjudication record and form of the record
** Provides for the making of objections and for hearing of the same, and corrections of the records.

Proposed Implementation​ Approach Organizational

** Administrative organization and or reorganization
** Develop Data organization and Procedure standards
** Appropriate personnel arrangements
** Establish a digital register
** Communication Strategy
** Public Education
** Vertical and Horizontal

Proposed Implementation Approach Technical

** Acquire and use appropriate Technology
** Develop data compilation and maintenance standards
** Spatial Reference Framework
** Base Mapping
** Land Adjudication/Parcel Demarcation: Opportunity to increase capacity in partnership with University of The Bahamas
** Registry Map / LIS Development
** Design /Assign parcel identifiers and System access mechanisms

Proposed Implementation Approach Institutional

** Assessment of user requirements
** Legal Reform
** Financial Arrangements
** Land Information Policy

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