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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 1956
    Kiribati

    An Ordinance to provide for title and registration of rights in native land. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance native land shall not be alienated, whether by sale, gift, lease or otherwise, to a person who is not a native. The Chief Lands Officer shall appoint a native lands Registrar for every register of native lands. No lease or sub-lease of any native land shall be valid until it has been approved and registered according with the provisions of this Ordinance. The Ordinance provides also for the survey of lands.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter establishes a Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Guam Self-Determination for the Native Inhabitants of Guam and defines its functions and powers and internal organization. The Commission shall be instrumental in the process of succession in colonial power by the United States over the lands and the people of Guam.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act restricts the use of public lands set aside for agricultural purposes to citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands and US nationals so as to prevent large-scale commercial exploitation of such lands which are scarce.Such lands as are leased or its use is permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall be developed in accordance with their most appropriate use or uses, i.e. either agricultural, aquacultural, maricultural, or animal husbandry.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Marshall Islands, Oceania

    The administration, control, custody and management of the Coastal Zone, and the general administration and implementation of the provisions of this Act are hereby vested in the National Environmental Protection Authority. "Coastal Zone" means the area laying within a limit of twenty five (25) feet landwards of the mean high water line and a limit of two hundred feet seawards of the mean low water line. The Authority shall appoint a Director of Coast Conservation.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Marshall Islands, Oceania

    This Act amends the Land Registration Authority Act 2003 by adding a new section (438A), which stipulates that no lease shall be subject to sublease unless specifically agreed to by the landowners in the original master lease, or consented to by the landowners in writing.

    Amends: Land Registration Authority Act 2003. (2006-06-26)

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act requires the Marianas Public Lands Authority to waive any conditions, limitations or regulations relating to the agricultural homesteading program in effect prior to 9 January 1978.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the control of the development and use of publicly owned wetlands and submerged lands and especially of areas subject to adverse possession by virtue of adjacent private property. All exploration, development, water or non-water dependent uses of submerged lands or extraction of petroleum deposits or mineral deposits which may be located in submerged lands of the Commonwealth require an approved license, lease, or permit from the Secretary of Lands and Natural Resources.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act introduces a 100 percent tax reduction for persons that received cash compensation by the Commonwealth Government in exchange of transfer of the title in their land to the Government. Other landowners that exchanged their land for publicly-owned land were not required to pay taxes on the transfer. This Act remedies the unequal treatment prescribed by previous legislation.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Act amends the Land Management Act for purposes of authorizing the Department of Land Management to provide for the design, construction and collateral equipment of a new public facility and to arrange related financing.

    Amends: Land Management - Chapter 60 of 21 GCA “Real Property”. (2006-04-14)

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Marshall Islands, Oceania

    This Act provides for the registration of land and establishes for this purpose a Land Registration Authority.The Authority shall be a body corporate and shall be managed by a Board of Directors. The Authority shall: (a) provide a legal framework for the people of the Marshall Islands to voluntarily register their interests in land in order to produce certainty regarding the identity of the legal owners of land and interests in land; (b) provide standards and criteria for land leases; and (c) maintain and keep public records of land and land transactions.

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