HERITAGE

The Jamaica National

Heritage Trust
The Jamaica National
Heritage Trust
 Development:
 The alteration, removal, repair, restoration
or demolition of or addition to, any national
monument;
 The carrying out of building, engineering or
other operations in, on, over or under any
national monument or making of any
material change in the structure, appearance
or use of any such national monument.
 Maintenance
 Includes the fencing, repairing and covering
of a national monument and the doing of
any other act or thing which may be
required for the purpose of repairing the
national monument or protecting it from
decay or injury, and the expression
“maintain” shall be construed accordingly.
 National Monument
 Any building, structure, object or other
work of man or of nature or any part or
remains thereof whether above or below the
surface of the land or the floor of the sea
within the territorial waters of the Island or
within the exclusive economic zone;
 Any site, cave or excavation, or any part or
remains thereof, declared by the Trust to be
a national monument.
 Protected National Heritage
 Any place name;
 Any species of animal or plant life;
 Any place or object (not declared by the
Trust to be a national monument),
designated by the Trust to be a protected
national heritage
 JAMAICA NATIONAL
HERITAGE TRUST
The Trust shall consist of fifteen members:
 The Government Town Planner, the
Commissioner of Lands, Chief Executive
Officer of the Trust (ex-officio) members.
 The Institute of Jamaica
 The Jamaica Historical Society
 The Jamaica Archaeological Society
 The University of the West Indies
 The Jamaica Institute of Architects
 Seven other appointed members.
 FUNCTION OF THE TRUST
 To promote the preservation of national
monuments and anything designated as
protected national heritage for the benefit of
the Island;
 To conduct such research as it thinks
necessary or desirable for the purposes of
the performance of its functions under the
Act;
 FUNCTION OF THE TRUST
 To carry out such development as it
considers necessary for the preservation of
any national monument or anything
designated as protected national heritage;
 To record any precious objects or works of
art to be preserved and to identify and
record any species of botanical or animal
life to be protected.
 Protection of National
Monuments & National Heritage
 The Trust may declare to be a national
monument any structure the preservation of
which is, in the opinion of the Trust, a
matter of public interest by reason of the
historic, architectural, traditional, artistic,
aesthetic, scientific or archaeological
interest
 Protection of National
Monuments & National Heritage
 The Trust shall, in each year, cause to be
published in the Gazette a list of all national
monuments in the Island for the time being
declared by the Trust
 The Trust shall cause to be placed on a
conspicuous pat of each national monument
included in the list a mark identifying the
monument
 Protection of National
Monuments & National Heritage
 Where any structure is declared a
monument the trust shall notify the
Registrar of Titles (ROT) of any registered
titles known to the Trust to be affected by
the declaration. The ROT shall forthwith
note on those titles the fact of the
declaration
 Protection of National
Monuments & National Heritage
 The Trust shall notify the Deputy Keeper of
the Records of any monument the title of
which is not under the Register of Titles Act
 Compensation
 Where the owner of a declared national
monument or a designated national heritage
suffers financial loss as a result of the
declaration or designation, the owner shall
be entitled to receive compensation as may
be appropriate
 Protection from Disrepair
Where the Trust is of the opinion that action
should be taken to prevent a national
monument or protected national heritage
from falling into disrepair, it shall be lawful
for the Trust:
 To notify the person in possession of the
need of repair
 To provide assistance as may be necessary
 To maintain the heritage or monument
Owner of Monument or Protected
Heritage
Person in possession of:
 A monument shall not demolish, remove or
alter any monument or carryout
development without prior written approval
of the Trust
 A protected heritage demolish, remove or
alter it without the prior written approval of
the Trust
Owner of Monument or Protected
Heritage
 Any one who contravenes Section 16(1)
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on conviction to a fine or
imprisonment or both. The court may order
the offender to pay the costs of restoring the
monument or the protected national
heritage.
Preservation Notice
Preservation Scheme
PROCEDURE FOR DECLARATION
OF NATIONAL MONUMENT