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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ACT

CHAPTER 60:02

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

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L.R.O.

Act
11 of 1905

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LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

2 Chap. 60:02 Geological Survey

Note on Subsidiary Legislation
This Chapter contains no subsidiary legislation.

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L.R.O.

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Geological Survey Chap. 60:02 3

CHAPTER 60:02

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ACT

An Act to authorise the Government Geologist to enter upon
private lands.

[10TH JUNE 1905]

1. This Act may be cited as the Geological Survey Act.

2. In this Act, the term “Government Geologist” means the
officer for the time being employed by the Government as a
Geological expert.

3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), it shall be lawful for the
Government Geologist and for any person assisting or employed
by him, and they are hereby respectively authorised and
empowered, from time to time at all reasonable times in the
daytime, to enter in and upon the land of any owner or person
whomsoever, and to break up the surface of any part of such land
for the purpose of ascertaining the rocks, strata or minerals within
or under the same, and to take and carry away specimens of the
rocks, strata or minerals found therein, and to set up or place any
post, stone, mark or object on such land, and to dig up any ground
for the purpose of fixing any such post, stone, mark or object.

(2) The Government Geologist and his assistants and
employees shall not enter into or upon any enclosed yard, court or
garden attached to a dwelling house without the previous consent
of the owner or occupier thereof.

4. Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs or hinders
the said Geologist, his assistants or employees, or takes away or
displaces or wilfully defaces or destroys any post, stone, mark or
object which has been set up or placed as provided in section 3(1),
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.

1950 Ed.
Ch. 26. No. 11.
11 of 1905.

Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Power to enter
lands and set up
marks.

Obstructing
Geologist or
removing or
defacing mark.

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