Seychelles
Agriculture Act
Act 3 of 1966
- Commenced on 7 March 1966
- [This is the version of this document at 30 June 2012 and includes any amendments published up to 30 June 2014.]
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act.2. Interpretation
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires–"absentee" means a person who is absent from Seychelles or who is on one of the outlying islands and is not represented by an agent or proxy duly authorized by a power of attorney to manage his principal’s land;"agriculture" means cultivation of land and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, market gardens or nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands when that use is ancillary to the use of land for other agricultural purposes, and "agricultural" shall be construed accordingly;"Director" means the chief Agricultural Officer;"outlying islands" means such islands or group of islands as are listed as outlying islands in the First Schedule to the Peace Officers (Inner Islands and Outlying Islands) Act;"owner" includes a co-owner and means in ordinary cases a person having the full ownership; the term "owner" means—(a)in any cases where full ownership does not rest with the same person, the usufructuary and the bare owner;(b)the owner’s agent or proxy duly authorized by a power of attorney to manage his principal’s land;(c)in cases of vacant estates and successions, the Curator of Vacant Estates;(d)in cases of minority, the legal administrator or the guardian;(e)in cases of interdiction, the guardian;(f)in cases of emancipation or of appointment of a conseil judiciare, the emancipated minor or the person to whom a conseil judiciare has been appointed and the curator or conseil judiciare;(g)in cases of substitution, the institute (grevé) acting with the concurrence of the tutor to the substitution; and(h)in cases where the land is held in leasehold of the Republic, the lessee or the sub-lessee;"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act.3. Director may make land preservation orders
4. Form of land preservation order
A land preservation order shall be as nearly as may be in the form in the schedule.5. Orders may be made against owner or occupier or both
A land preservation order may be made against the owner or occupier of land, or against both the owner and occupier either at the same time or at different times.6. Director may alter or amend orders
The Director may alter or amend a land preservation order.7. Orders to remain in force until cancelled
All land preservation orders shall remain in force until cancelled.8. Service of orders
9. Appeals against orders etc.
10. Effect of orders etc.
So long as an appeal against a land preservation order or an alteration or amendment thereof is pending—11. Change of owner or occupier
Where a land preservation order is in force in respect of any land, any disposition (including a testamentary disposition) devolution and transmission of the land to which the order relates shall not affect the continued operation of the order, and accordingly the order shall remain in force and be binding on the new owner or occupier as the case may be, as if it had been made so as to relate to the new owner or occupier, as the case may be, as well as to the former owner or occupier.12. Default in compliance with orders
13. Powers of Directors in cases of absentees
14. Penalty for contravention of order
15. Power of entry
16. Right of occupier for work done in compliance with order
17. References to owners and occupiers of land
Any reference in this Act to an occupier of land shall have effect notwithstanding that such person is also the owner of the land, and any reference in this Act to an owner of land shall have effect notwithstanding that such person is also the occupier of the land.18. Regulations
The Minister may make regulations generally for carrying out the objects and provisions of this Act and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, regulations may be made to—History of this document
30 June 2012 this version
Consolidation
07 March 1966
Commenced