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  1. Library Resource

    An Act to provide for defining land boundaries.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act allows the Minister to decide that the boundary of land or of any portion thereof should be more clearly defined or ascertained. For that purpose, the Minister may serve notice on the owner or occupier of any such land requiring him within the period specified in such notice, to clear, define, or otherwise ascertain the boundary of the land to the satisfaction of an official surveyor. A person who fails to comply with the terms of any notice shall be guilty of an offence.

  2. Library Resource

    An Act to provide for the fencing of land.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act allows the Minister to serve notice on the owner or occupier of any such land to erect fences in accordance with the terms and specifications prescribed in the said notice. The Minister may serve also serve notices requiring maintenance of fences and gates in a good and sufficient state of repair. Any person who fails to comply with the terms of or prevents or obstructs the execution of the terms of any notice issued and duly served under this Act shall be guilty of an offence.

  3. Library Resource

    An Act to regulate the carrying out of works on the foreshore.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act concerns the protection and development of the foreshore, e.g. the land below mean high water mark and the bed of the sea within the territorial waters of Vanuatu (including the ports and harbours thereof) and including land below mean high water mark in any lagoon having direct access to the open sea. No person shall undertake or cause or permit to be undertaken any development on the foreshore of the coast of any island in Vanuatu without having first obtained the written consent to such development of the Minister responsible for town and country planning.

  4. Library Resource

    An Act to provide for dealings between owners of land and alienators and matters incidental thereto.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the registration of alienators having the right to negotiate negotiation of alienation of land of custom owners and the registration of mortgages on alienated land. Furthermore the Act provides for various matters relative to negotiation of land and consequences of alienation. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Land Reform Act, Cap. 123, the Minister shall cause a register of alienators to be kept (sect. 2) and if the Minister is satisfied that an applicant under section 3 is an alienator he shall register him as such in the Register.

  5. Library Resource
    Regulations
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Order prescribes forms for purposes of the Land Leases Act. The forms set out in the Schedule are hereby prescribed for the particular purposes of the Act specified on each form.

    Implements: Land Leases Act (Cap. 163). (1988)

  6. Library Resource

    An Act to provide for controlling the development of land.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act applies to physical planning within a Physical Planning Area declared as such by a Municipal Council or Local Government Council. In declaring an area to be a Physical Planning Area, a Council may in its absolute discretion decide that one or more of the types of development specified in Schedule I shall not require permission for development, and it shall specify those types of development in the declaration. Whenever a council declares an area to be a Physical Planning Area it shall prepare a plan of that area.

  7. Library Resource

    An Act to provide for the registration of land valuers; to regulate the qualifications for and the effect of such registration and to confer and impose functions on the Valuer-General.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act prescribes that the Valuer-General shall keep a register to be called the "Register of Land Valuers". Information set out in section 2 shall be registered. Conditions for registration are set out in section 3. The Valuer-General shall issue a certificate of registration to a person registered or whose registration is renewed. Section 9 provides for proceedings before the Valuer-General against registered land valuers.

  8. Library Resource

    An Act to make provision for the valuation of land; to establish the office of Valuer-General; to provide for the functions and powers of the Principal Valuation Officer in the Ministry of Lands; and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act concerns public control on the valuation of land. The general role of the Valuer-General is: (a) to exercise functions with respect to the valuation of land in Vanuatu; and (b) to ensure the integrity of valuations under this Act; and (c) to act as a land referee in disputes regarding rentals and land values (sects 3 to 6). The Principal Valuation Officer is to ascertain the value of each parcel of land in Vanuatu and any land value ascertained under this Act is to be entered in the Valuation Roll.

  9. Library Resource

    An Act about customary land disputes, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    The object of this Act is to provide for a system based on custom to resolve disputes about customary land. This Act provides for the establishment of land tribunals to resolve disputes about customary land and prescribes the procedures to be followed by those land tribunals in resolving such disputes and rules of appeal for parties who are dissatisfied with decisions of land tribunals. Part 2 sets out how a village land tribunal is to resolve a customary land dispute. A village land tribunal can be a single or joint village land tribunal depending on where the land in dispute is situated.

  10. Library Resource

    An Act relating to the registration of certain forestry rights granted in respect of land, and to the harvesting and accreditation of timber plantations.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act regulates the definition, granting, transfer and registration of forestry rights in land, i.e.: (a) an interest in the land pursuant to which a person having the benefit of the interest is entitled to enter the land and do all or any of the following: (i) to establish, maintain, and harvest a crop of trees on the land; (ii) to maintain and harvest a crop of trees on the land; (iii) to construct and use such buildings, works and facilities as required for crop management; or (b) a carbon sequestration right in respect of the land; or (c) a combination of such rights, and provides fo

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