Contracts affecting property rights of land and for the registration of these contracts in the cadastre must be laid down by a legal counsel on sheets of paper bearing the requisites foreseen in Article 2. Such contracts shall be registered with the competent district land office and shall be kept in a safe place by the legal counsel.
This Decree establishes that the competent authority for real estate issues is the countrywide network system of land offices (territorial and local offices). They are responsible for registration of legal transactions, cadastral mapping changes and dealing with land and other real estate property-related activities. The Hungarian Land Register is owned and maintained by the Ministry of Rural Development. This Decree establishes also the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing as the institutional body for land surveying and geo-information.
This Decree applies to arable and, exceptionally, to uncultivated lands forming part of the state-owned propriety, which are managed by the Hungarian National Land Fund Company according to the principles of land tenure policy. The Company keeps an inventory of the assets of the Fund and determines the utilization of lands. There are detailed rules regarding the method and the content of data to be registered and the plan for the utilization of lands (sale or lease through tender).
This Decree establishes that the competent territorial and local authority for land management is the countrywide network system of land offices (county and ditrict offices)and the central authority is the Land Survey and Remote Sensing Institute (FÖMI).
This Decree provides detailed rules regarding the publication of sales and lease contracts by announcement in the interest of those who are entitled to execise their pre-emption or pre-lease right over agricultural or forestry lands. The land owner shall request the municipal office that the announcement of the contract be published. Administrative procedures are described in Articles 2-12. The fact of the publication shall be published also on the governmental internet site according to the rules set in Article 13.
Article 1 of the Decree provides the definition of animal density to be used for the purposes of this Decree. For the calculation of animal density, livestock units shown in Annex 1 shall be used. Articles 2 and 3 contains special rules regarding right of pre-emption and pre-lease as defined in the Act on agricultural and forestry land trade.
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.
In case of existence of a right of pre-emption on an arable land or farm, the proprietor must notice the offer to buy, before the stipulation of the contract, to the persons entitled to pre-emption or privileged lease. The Decree contains detailed rules regarding the way of notification and acceptance or renouncement of the entitled person to pre-emption or privileged lease.
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