What the T&T law says about land acquisition

LAND ACQUISITION ACT. CHAPTER 58:01.

ACQUISITION OF LAND
3. (1) When it appears to the President that any land is likely to be required for any purposes which, in the opinion of the President, are public purposes, a Notice to that effect shall be published—
(a) in the Gazette; and
(b) twice in at least one daily newspaper circulating in Trinidad and Tobago.

(2) No later than seven days after the date of publication of the Notice in the Gazette, the Notice shall be served—

(a) personally or by registered post addressed to his last known place of abode or business, if within a postal delivery district, on every person who is known or believed by the Commissioner to be a person interested and whose whereabouts are known to the Commissioner; or

(b) by affixing a copy of it to a conspicuous part of the land whenever the whereabouts of any person who is known or believed by the Commissioner to be a person interested, are not known to the Commissioner.

(5) The Commissioner may after fourteen days, not including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from the date of publication referred to in subsection (1)(a) have elapsed and whether or not a representation has been made under subsection (3), enter upon the land for investigative purposes only and do all or any of the following things:

(a) survey and take levels of any land in any locality to which the public purposes relate;
(b) dig or bore into the subsoil of such land;
(c) do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adaptable to the purposes for which it is required;
(d) set out the boundaries of the land intended to be acquired and the intended line of the works, if any, proposed to be done thereon;
(e) mark levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches;
(f) cut down and clear away any standing crop, fence, tree or bush, where otherwise the survey cannot be completed, the levels taken or the boundaries or line of the works marked;
(g) set up and maintain gauges in any stream or watercourse, and have access to the same from time to time for purposes of observation; and
(h) do all such other acts as may be incidental to or necessary for any of the purposes aforesaid.

(6) The Commissioner shall not enter into any building, or into or upon any enclosed yard, court or garden attached to a dwelling house, except—

(a) with the consent of the occupier thereof; or
(b) after giving to the occupier at least twenty-four hours notice in writing of his intention to do so.

(7) Compensation shall be paid to any person interested in the land so entered for any actual damage or injury resulting to him by reason of the exercise of the powers conferred by this section and shall be assessed—
(a) in so far as it relates to land, the acquisition of which is subsequently abandoned under section 8 or deemed to be abandoned under section 9, in the manner provided by this Act; or
(b) in so far as it relates to land, the compulsory acquisition of which is completed under section 5, as though it were part of the compensation for the acquisition of the land.

4. (1) No earlier than two months after the date of publication of a Notice referred to in section 3(1)(a) the President may, if satisfied that the circumstances of the case justify such action, issue an Order authorising the Commissioner, without waiting for the formal vesting of the land in the State under section 5, to take possession of the land and apply it for any purpose connected with the use to which it is intended to be put on acquisition.

http://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/Laws2/Alphabetical_List/lawspdfs/58.01.pdf