Cap. 199 Art. 19Regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for justice may make regulations governing the proceedings of the Board and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations-

(a) prescribing the contents of an application to the Board and the procedure for the service thereof on the party having an interest to oppose the application;

(b) prescribing the procedure for the fixing by the Board of the date of hearing of an application and for the giving notice of such date to the parties concerned;

(c) prescribing the payments, including the payment of a registry fee to be fixed by the said Minister, which are to be made with the filing of an application to the Board;

(d) prescribing what part of the registry fee is to be refunded if an application is abandoned and the procedure of refund;

(e) prescribing the fee payable to an advocate or legal procurator for an application to the Board and enabling the Board to fix, within limits established by the said Minister, the fee payable to an advocate or legal procurator in respect of proceedings before the Board;

(f) prescribing any other matter that may be necessary for the better carrying out of the functions of the Board: Provided that until fees are prescribed in terms of paragraphs (c), (d) or (e), the fees established in Schedule A to the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure shall apply.

(1A) The Minister responsible for justice, with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for agriculture, may make regulations regarding the procedure, the method and the criteria that should be followed or to serve as guidelines in the carrying out of estimates of the value of agricultural land, rents for agricultural purpose or residential purpose or agricultural produce made in accordance with any one (1) of the provisions of this Act. In making regulations under this sub-article due account shall be taken of the rights of the tenant and of the lessor, as well as of the national interest in supporting local agriculture.

(2) Any regulations made under this article shall be laid before the House of Representatives as soon as may be after they are made, and if, within the next twenty days beginning with the day on which such regulations are so laid before it, the House of Representatives resolves that the regulations be annulled, they shall henceforth be void, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or the making of any new regulations:

Provided that there shall not be included in the computation of the said twenty days any period of four or more consecutive days intervening between any two consecutive sittings of the House of Representatives.