Guyana Lands and Survey Commission Act (Cap. 59:05.)

This Act establishes the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission as a body corporate. The Commission shall be the successor to the Lands and Surveys Department. Its functions shall be to take charge of and supervise all public lands, rivers and creeks in Guyana, to carry out various surveys of land and water resources of Guyana, to control and administer land surveys in Guyana, to establish and maintain a national survey control system, to evaluate offers for public land and to issue grants or leases of public lands, to monitor and enforce conditions on which public land is sold or let, to make and maintain records on public land as required by law, to collect moneys in relation to selling or letting of public land, to prepare land use plans in accordance with the Town and Country Planning Act, and various other functions relating to management and conservation of public land set out in section 4. The Commission may delegate functions pursuant to section 5. The Commission shall be governed by a Board which shall be constituted and shall operate in accordance with provisions set out in the Schedule to this Act. The Minister may give the Commission directions in writing of a general character not inconsistent with provisions of this Act (sect. 30). Regulation making powers of the Commission are defined in section 39.