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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation

    Under this statute people are permitted to lease land and to bequeath its use to their heirs in perpetuity. Ownership of land is delegated to local soviets, which fix the prices for land rentals. While heritable land can be worked as property, it cannot be sold, granted or mortgaged. The drafting of more detailed rules on land tenure is delegated to the Union republics, within the framework laid down by the statute. In practice, farmers will henceforth be free to choose between being collective farm members or individual farmers.

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    An Act instituting a comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to promote social justice and industrialization, providing the mechanism for its implementation, and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Philippines, South-Eastern Asia, Asia

    The Act consists of 78 sections, divided into 15 Chapters.(A) Policy Framework. It is the stated policy of the state to see to the welfare of the landless farmers and farmworkers, and to establish the owner-cultivatorship of economic-size farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture. To this end, and Agrarian Reform Program which is based on the right of landless farmers and farmworkers to own the land they till, or to receive a fair share of the fruits of their labour.

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    An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the conservation of soil resources and to facilitate the implementation of soil conservation measures by landholders for the mitigation of soil erosion.

    Legislation
    Australia, Oceania

    This Act consist of 7 Parts divided into 41 sections: Preliminary (1), Administration (2), Approved Property Plans (3), Project Areas (4), Objections and Appeals (5), Financial Assistance (6), General Provisions (7). The Act vests powers in the chief executive of Primary Industries relating to soil conservation to facilitate the implementation of soil conservation by land holders. The main instruments are property plans, run-off coordination notices, project plans for project areas and soil conservation orders.

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    Legislation
    Uruguay, Americas, South America

    La Ley consta de 2 títulos y 30 artículos. INDICE: Título I: Principios Generales (1), Competencia (2), Conservación y recuperación de suelos (3), Sanciones (4), Crédito (5), Disposiciones generales (6); Título II: Alumbramiento de aguas subterráneas (1).El artículo 1º declara de interés nacional promover, proteger y regular el buen uso y la conservación de los suelos y de las aguas, tanto superficiales como subterráneas. El Ministerio de Ganadería y Agricultura coordinará y dirigirá todas las actividades tendientes a lograr un manejo adecuado del suelo y del agua (art. 3º).

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    Legislation
    Belize, Americas, Central America

    The Ordinance consists of 19 articles that are divided into three Parts: Preliminary (I); Subdivision (II) and Utilization (III). No person may subdivide any land to which this Act applies except in accordance with the provisions contained in the Act. Part III empowers the Minister to make regulations for the better utilization of land regarding, inter alia, the prohibition of land clearing within demarcated catchment areas, measures to prevent soil erosion, restrictions on construction and the demarcation of special development areas.

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    Legislation
    Colombia, Americas, South America

    El Código nacional de recursos naturales renovables y de protección del medio ambiente, consta de 340 artículos organizados en dos libros: Del Ambiente (Libro Primero) y De la Propiedad, Uso e Influencia Ambiental de los Recursos Naturales Renovables (Libro Segundo).

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    Legislation
    Venezuela, Americas, South America

    La Ley consta de 11 títulos y 130 artículos.

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    A Law to provide for town and country planning, for regulating the use and controling and promoting the development of immovable property and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

    Legislation
    Cyprus, Western Asia

    This Law provides for town and country planning, for regulating the use, controlling and promoting the development of immovable property. The authority competent ("planning authority") for the purposes of this Law shall be, as the case may be, the Minister of Finance (as far as Part II is concerned) and the Minister of Interior elsewhere; however, the expression "the Minister" shall include any person, body or authority delegated by the Minister to exercise his functions under this Law.

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    Legislation
    Cyprus, Western Asia

    The 36 sections are arranged under the following Headings: Provisional Committee and Preparation of Scheme for Soil Conservation; First Meeting of Proprietors and Approval of Soil Conservation Scheme; Rules, Regulations and General Powers of Boards; Acquisition of Property and Entry upon Land; Miscellaneous.

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    Legislation
    Estonia, Europe, Northern Europe

    The Land Reform Act determines the bases for restructuring relations regarding land (land reform). Based on the continuity of rights of former owners and the interests of current land users that are protected by law, and to establish preconditions for more effective use of land, the objective of land reform is to transform relations based on state ownership of land into relations primarily based on private ownership of land.

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