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CHAPTER 99:04
HOUSING OF LABOUR WORKERS ON SUGAR
ESTATES ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Exemption of certain leases from the provisions of section 13 of
c. 5:01.
4. Special provisions for securing the repayment of certain loans
to labour workers.
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c. 183
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An Act to make special provisions for the housing of labour 19 of 1951
workers on sugar estates.
[26TH MAY, 1951]
1. This Act may be cited as the Housing of Labour Workers on Short title.
Sugar Estates Act.
2. In this Act— Interpretation.
“exporter” means any person operating a factory in Guyana and
manufacturing sugar for export;
“labour worker” means—
(a) any person engaged in manual labour in or about any
work incidental to the cultivation of sugar cane and the
manufacture of sugar;
(b) any person employed as a headman, foreman, sugar
boiler, clerk or laboratory assistant or in any similar capacity
in or about any work incidental to the cultivation of sugar
cane and the manufacture of sugar;
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(c) any person engaged in the cultivation of sugar cane
for sale to an exporter;
(d) any worker employed in a distillery or any duly
registered sicknurse and dispenser employed by an
exporter;
(e) any driver of a motor-vehicle used for the
transportation of sugar in bulk for export in bulk by an
exporter;
(f)any person employed as a foreman or clerk or in any
similar capacity in or about any work incidental to the
exportation of sugar in bulk by an exporter; and
(g) any person employed by the Demerara Sugar
Terminals Limited, not being a person who is -
(i) a director or manager, or such other person (by
whatever name called) who, in the opinion of the
Committee referred to in section 4, exercises managerial
functions;
(ii) employed in a professional or administrative capacity
or a combination of both of those capacities;
(h) any person belonging to such class of persons
engaged in the loading of sugar for export as the Minister
may, from time to time, approve for the purpose by direction
in writing.
Exemption of 3. (1) Any lease of immovable property to which this section
certain leases applies for a term of twenty-one years or more, or for any term
from the
renewable at the will of the lessee indefinitely, or for periods which,
provisions of
section 13 of together with the first term thereof, amount in all to twenty-one years
c. 5:01 or more, and any surrender, assignment or transfer thereof, shall have
[11 of 1974] effect as if such lease, surrender, assignment or transfer had been
passed and executed before the High Court in the manner specified in
c. 5:01 section 13 of the Deeds Registry Act.
(2) This section applies to any lease (including any surrender,
transfer or assignment thereof) granted to any labour worker—
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(a) in respect of any immovable property owned by the
Committee referred to in section 4 or by any company
engaged in the manufacture of sugar or in the cultivation of
sugar cane;
(b) by the State in respect of any immovable property to
which, but for the conveyance to the State of the title thereto
by the Committee or by such a company, as is mentioned in
paragraph (a), the foregoing provisions of this section would
apply.
(3) The parties to a lease, surrender, assignment or transfer as
referred to in subsection (1), shall forthwith cause such lease,
surrender, assignment or transfer, as the case may be, to be filed as of
record in the Deeds Registry and pay such fees as may be prescribed
under the Deeds Registry Act, save however, that notwithstanding c. 5:01
anything to the contrary in any law the failure to file such a lease,
surrender, assignment or transfer, made prior to the coming into
operation of this section, shall not affect the validity of such lease,
surrender, assignment or transfer.
4. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act to the contrary, Special
where any loan has been made by the Committee from the Fund to a provisions for
securing the
labour worker for the purpose of enabling such worker to erect and own
repayment of
a house on land to which section 3 applies, or to extend, improve or certain loans to
repair his own house on such land, the labour worker shall sign a labour
promissory note and a receipt, and such receipt shall have effect as an workers.
assignment to the Committee of the labour worker’s right, title and [5 of 1961
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interest in the house and land as security for the repayment to the
Committee of the loan.
(2) In this section—
“the Committee” means the Committee appointed under section 8 (2)
of the Sugar Industry Special Funds Act; and
“the Fund” means the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund established
by section 2 of the Sugar Industry Special Funds Act.
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