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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    June, 2016
    Vanuatu

    This Act amends the Land Leases Act by deleting “Companies Act [CAP 191]” (wherever occurring) and substituting “Companies Act No. 25 of 2012. It also makes amendments to section 4 on registration of leases held by companies in the Land Leases Register.

    Amends: Land Leases Act (Cap. 163). (2006)

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    March, 1984
    Vanuatu

    This Act makes provision with respect to the creation and registration of leases. There shall be a Land Leases Register for the registration of each lease required to be registered by this Act. The Act defines various conditions applying to a registered lease and the effects of registration. Other provisions of this Act concern other titles in land such as mortgages and easements, co-ownership, transmission, trusts, and cautions.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 0001
    Papua New Guinea

    This Act provides with respect to local government in accordance with section 187B of the Constitution, which requires an Organic Law to provide for, or make provision in respect of, the form and the manner of establishment of the Provincial Governments and the Local-level Governments. The system of Provincial Governments established by this Organic Law applies to the government of the National Capital District and the provisions of this Organic Law relating to Provincial Governments apply to the National Capital District.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    Amendments of the principal Act are made by this Act in relation to: definitions (sect. 1 of the principal Act), the Land Leases Register (sects. 2,4), registered leases and freehold titles in estates in the framework of the coming into force of the Freehold Titles Act No. 13 of 1994 (sects. 8, 13, 14, 15, 22, 30, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 76, 91 and 107). Section 12A provides that the Director may combine or subdivide freehold estates in specified cases.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Solomon Islands, Oceania

    For the purposes of this Act there is hereby established an office to be known as the Central Land Record Office which shall be responsible for the administration of the provisions of this Act and be the central repository of copies of all records of customary land holdings. These offices shall be managed by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission acting as National Recorder. Tasks of the National Recorder are set out in section 7 and include registration of customary land. "Customary land" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 2 of the Land and Titles Act Titles.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    “Director” now means the Director of the department responsible for land" (sect. 1). Section 3, here repealed, concerned the appointment of the Director of Land Records. Consequentially, a reference in any other Act or instrument to the Director of Lands Records shall be to be a reference to the Director of the department responsible for land. The new section 32B empowers the Minister to extend the term of a lease of public land that is less than 75 years to 75 years, subject to fulfilment of certain conditions.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the registration of National Land, i.e. any land declared under this Act to be National Land. The Act also makes provisions for certain matters in relation with the acquisition of land by the State for public purposes.The Minister may declare, by Notice, a land to be National Land if the land, in the opinion of the Minister was acquired by a previous administration or required for a public purpose as defined by this Act or “a reason that is reasonably justified in a democratic society that has a proper regard for the rights and dignity of mankind”.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act strengthens the legal framework concerning title to custom land and concerns management of custom land by customary institutions. It formalizes the recognition of customary institutions termed ‘nakamals’ and ‘custom area land tribunals’ to determine the rules of custom which form the basis of ownership and use of land in Vanuatu. In general the Act aims at holding of custom land by owners as a group. Custom land means land owned or occupied, or land in which an interest is held, by one or more persons in accordance with the rules of custom.

  9. Library Resource

    Being an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Development Bank and to define its powers and functions, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act provides for the incorporation of the National Development Bank and defines functions and powers of the Bank. The Act also establishes the National Development Bank Board, which shall manage and administer the Bank's operations. The Act also deals with the registration of land that belonged to the previous Development Bank but is now vested in the Bank established under this Act.

    Repeals: Rural Development Bank Act 1965. (2006)

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Fiji, Oceania

    This Decree amends the Land Transfer Act in section 159 by adding 8 new subsections in relation with the registration of an easement over a subdivisional lot by the Registrar and compensation or legal proceedings in relation with a decision of the Registrar to register such easement.

    Amends: Land Transfer Act. (1979)

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