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Grants in fee simple
22.—(1) Subject to section 20, grants in fee simple must not be issued otherwise than in accordance with this Part. (2) Every grant in fee simple issued under this Part must be in the prescribed form and must be signed by the Collector.[14
Corrected and amended grants
23. The President may, where former grants are surrendered, make grants, or amended grants, in fee simple in any of the following cases:(a) when any lands have been held in fee simple under a grant which is found to be defective in the description of the lands intended to be thereby granted owing to incorrect survey or otherwise, and that grant has been surrendered by the holder of the grant to the intent that the holder may receive in lieu thereof a new grant correctly describing the lands and hereditaments intended to be conveyed by the surrendered grant; (b) when in consequence of any dispute regarding the boundaries of any land comprised in a grant in fee simple, or for any like cause, it has been agreed between the owner of the land and the President that the owner must surrender the grant to the intent that the owner may receive an amended grant in lieu of the grant surrendered.[15
Surrender and regrant
24. When for the convenience of the Government the owner of any land held under a grant in fee simple surrenders the grant to the intent that the owner may receive a grant in lieu thereof, the President is to issue a grant in lieu thereof in fee simple for land either in the same place or elsewhere, or for land partly in the same place and partly elsewhere, except that the land to be held under the new grant is approximately equal in value to the land held under the grant to be surrendered.[16
Housing and Development Board’s interest in land
25. Where land held under a grant in fee simple has been or is acquired by the Government for the purposes of the Housing and Development Board at the cost of the Board’s funds or of any funds exclusively allocated for those purposes, and has been or by the acquisition becomes vested in the State, the President may, at the request of the Chairperson of the Board, issue to the Board one or more grants of that land or any part of that land in fee simple.[17
Grants in fee simple of unrequired road reserve or strip of State land
26. Where State land constituting the whole or part of a State reserve for road, or other strip of State land, is situated adjoining land held, or to be held, by any person under a grant in fee simple, and that State land is no longer required, or not required by the State as such a reserve, or otherwise, the President may issue to that person a grant of that State land or any part of that State land in fee simple.[18
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