President David Granger has delegated a series of powers in relation to public lands and state lands to the Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC).
The delegation of powers was done via an Order under The Interpretation and General Clauses Act and was dated June 9, 2016 but only uploaded to the Official Gazette site in recent days.
The Order says that “The Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission is hereby deputed to exercise on behalf of the President the functions relating to the sanctioning of renting and granting of leases, licences, and permission of occupancy of all Public Lands (government lands under the meaning of the Lands Department Act and State Lands under the meaning of the State Lands Act), conferred on the President by the President by the Lands Department Act and the State Lands Act respectively”.
