Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

[This statutory instrument has no BR number,
as it was enacted as the Schedule to the Bermuda Immigration
and Protection Amendment Act 1985]

BERMUDA IMMIGRATION AND PROTECTION (RENTAL CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1985

[made under the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1956 [title 5 item 16] and brought into operation on 1 July 1985]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation

2 Interpretation

3 Permits to rent

4 Applications

5 Grants

6 Conditions

7 Statutory charge

8 Statutory declaration

 

Citation

1 These Regulations may be cited as the Bermuda Immigration and Protection (Rental Charges) Regulations 1985.

Interpretation

2 In these Regulations—

"licensee" means a person to whom a licence has been issued under section 85 of the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1953 [title 5 item 16];

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Immigration;

"non-Bermudian" means a person who does not have Bermudian status;

"official form" means a form approved and issued by the Minis ter;

"permit" means a permit sanctioning the entering into a renting agreement by a licensee;

"renting agreement" means an agreement to rent out land to any non-Bermudian who is not ordinarily resident in Bermuda;

"statutory charge" means the charge prescribed by regulation 7;

"statutory declaration" means a declaration called for by regula tion 8.

Permits to rent

3 A licensee shall not enter into a renting agreement unless he is the holder of a valid permit in respect of that agreement.

Applications

4 Before he enters into a renting agreement, a licensee shall make application for a permit on an official form.

Grants

5 Where he has received an application under regulation 4, the Minister may grant a permit, or he may refuse to grant one, as he thinks fit.

Conditions

6 It is a condition of the grant of every permit that the licensee—

(a) shall pay the statutory charge;

(b) shall, where the circumstances require, make the statutory declaration.

Statutory charge

7 The licensee shall pay to the Minister immediately upon the grant of a permit the statutory charge of $50 or 5% of the rent for which the renting agreement provides, whichever is the greater.

Statutory declaration

8 Where an alteration is at any time made to the amount of the
rent that had before that time been notified to the Minister as the amount of rent being charged under a renting agreement, it is the duty of the licensee by declaration on an official form to notify the Minister of the amount of the altered rent.

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