The Act empowers the planning authorities to prepare development plans in order to ensure sustainable development of land. This Act shall apply to any area designated by the Minister by Notice in the Gazette. The Act establishes the Town and Country Planning Board. The Planning Authority shall prepare a development plan in respect of any area to which this Act applies. Permission of the Minister shall be required group of land or building uses which may be prescribed by Order of the Minister.

This Order specifies permitted development, requires a planning permission to be obtained for certain development and provides with respect to other matters related to development control. Any planning permission granted shall run with the land. The permission granted by the Planning Authority shall be subject to the standard conditions contained in Part II of the First Schedule. Planning permission may also be granted by a local council if authority has been delegated to such council.

This Decree shall be applied to procedures, legal transactions, legal relations in connection with the utilization of land parcels of the National Land Fund, and to natural persons, legal entities and entities without legal personality taking part in such affairs.

La presente Ley establece el marco normativo relativo a: a) la conservación y control de la capacidad productiva de los suelos; b) la prevención de todo proceso de degradación de los suelos; c) la recuperación de los suelos degradados; y d) la promoción de la educación conservacionista del suelo. Estas disposiciones se aplican a todos los suelos rurales del territorio provincial, de propiedad pública o privada. En cuanto al marco constitucional, se prevé la conformación del Consejo de Protección de los Suelos (art. 4º).

This Act lays down rules regarding the acquisition of property rights of agricultural and forestry lands, the institution of usufruct right on such lands, the use of land, the control on restrictions relative to the acquisition of land, and rules regarding local land commissions. This Act applies to all land in the national territory.

El presente Decreto tiene por objeto la reglamentación de los artículos 2º, 3º, 4º, 5º y 12 de la Ley de conservación y protección de los suelos. En particular, el Decreto establece la definición de suelo rural a efectos de la aplicación de la Ley, indica las funciones de las autoridades de aplicación y fija principios en tema de sanciones por incumplimiento de la Ley.

Implementa: Ley Nº 8.936 - Ley de conservación y protección de los suelos. (2001-06-14)

The scope of Land Code shall be to regulate land relations originating from application of different types of land ownership rights, including duties of landowners, tenants, leaseholders, protection of land rights, application of rational land tenure, restoration and improvement of soil fertility, land re-cultivation and improvement of natural environment. Land property shall envisage public, municipal and private ownership, that have equal status and are equally protected by the Law (Art. 4).

El presente Decreto Supremo tiene por objeto implementar mecanismos de resguardo de las áreas productivas a fin de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria con soberanía. En este marco se definen las siguientes categorías de áreas: a) áreas productivas agropecuarias urbanas, que son espacios de uso agropecuario, piscícola o agroforestal de extensiones influenciables o colindantes con urbanizaciones; b) áreas rurales de vocación productiva, cuyas características, tengan continuidad superficial y preponderancia para la seguridad alimentaria.

Article 45 shall be amended to add the following wording: “The right to permanent (open-ended) tenancy of a land plot can be mandatorily stopped in the following cases: (a) non-purposeful use of land with flagrant violation of rational land management regulations; (b) soil damages; (c) non-fulfilment of land reclamation arrangements; and (d) non-utilization of agricultural land for agricultural purposes for a period of three years and over”.

Amends: Land Code (No. 136-FZ of 2001). (2001-10-25)

This Order implements provisions of the Facilities for Title Act by: declaring the purposes set out in section 11 of the Agriculture (Hurricane Rehabilitation) Act, Chapter 7 to be approved purposes to which section 3 of the Act applies and that the application of the Act shall be limited to holdings of a specified maximum value; and by empowering the Central Agricultural Rehabilitation Committee to issue loans for the rehabilitation of lands to which the Act applies at a specified rate per acre.

Implements: Facilities for Title Act (Cap. 99). (1967)

Item 5 shall be amended to add the following wording: “In the process of distribution of subsidies shall be also taken into consideration the amount of budgetary allocation envisaged by regional budget (local budget) confirmed by extract from regional budget (local budget) and the level of co-financing of expenditure obligation at the expense of subsidies determined in accordance with the item 8 of this Regulation”.

This Act makes provision with respect to local government in Lesotho.