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.
The purpose of this Law is the establishment of market oriented conditions in the agricultural sector based on private ownership. Land transfer and the use of land as guarantee for land-based credit should promote the efficient operation of new businesses. This Law basically regulates the use of arable land and aims to create landed properties suitable for competitive agricultural production, avoiding to burden land with the effects of excessive subdivision.
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 349 of the Penal Code addresses the illegal acquisition of property and use rights of agricultural and silvicultural land. Persons eluding legal restrictions or prohibitions may be punished with one to five years of imprisonment.
This Act is composed of 20 chapters and it is divided into 148 articles.
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 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.
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