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Cap. 68:07
L.R.O. 3/1998
CHAPTER 68:07
PLANTATION (PROPRIETORS) GOVERNMENT
LOANS ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Right of summary recovery over by one co-proprietor of a
plantation paying government loan for another co-proprietor.
4. Right to pay moiety of government loan.
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An Act to provide a Summary Means of Recovery by one Co-
Proprietor of a Plantation charged with the Repayment of a
Government Loan against another Co-Proprietor in
respect of Sums of Money paid by the former on behalf of the
latter in Discharge of such Loan.
[28TH JUNE, 1893]
1. This Act may be cited as the Plantation (Proprietors)
Government Loans Act.
2. In this Act—
“government loan” means any loan made from public moneys under the
sanction of the National Assembly, and includes any instalment of
the loan and any interest accrued due thereon or any instalment
thereof;
“plantation” means any plantation or piece of land charged with and
liable for the repayment of any government loan.
9 of 1893
1929 Ed.
c. 158
1953 Ed.
c. 246
Short title.
Interpretation.
LAWS OF GUYANA
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3. Where a proprietor of a plantation which is owned by more
proprietors than one, either in separate portions, being less than halves,
or in undivided shares, or in both those ways, pays any portion of a
government loan charged upon the plantation which is properly payable
by a co-proprietor of the plantation, the proprietor so paying shall have
against his co-proprietor for whom he pays the same remedies for the
recovery of the amount so paid as the State, or any public officer, has
against the plantation for the recovery of the government loan charged
upon the plantation:
Provided that the right of summary recovery over shall only attach
where the proprietor paying for a co-proprietor has so paid in good faith
and solely for the purpose of preventing proceedings by parate execution
being taken against th