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  1. Library Resource

    Being an Act to provide for the establishment of a Papua New Guinea Harbours Board and to define its powers and functions, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    The Minister may declare a port or any waters of Papua New Guinea and any land contiguous to such waters, to be a declared port for the purposes of this Act. The Papua New Guinea Harbours Board is established under section 3. The Board shall give effect to any direction given to it by the Minister on any matter of policy relating to the exercise or performance of its functions, duties or powers. The Board shall be responsible for the regulation, management, operation and control of declared ports.

  2. Library Resource

    Being an Act relating to certain matters concerning landlords and tenants that were the subject of English legislation applying before Independence.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act regulates some aspects of the (non) contractual relationship between landlord and tenant such as compensation for use and occupation in case of land held not by written agreement (deed), no obligation of attornment by the lessee under the lease in case of a conveyance of the reversion or remainder expectant or depending on a lease of any land, attornment by a lessee to a third party without consent of the lessor, rent, obligation of lessors' covenants and rent and benefit of lessees' covenants.

  3. Library Resource

    Being an Act to make certain provision for the execution of powers of appointment.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act regulates some aspects of power of attorney in relation with dealings of land.

  4. Library Resource

    Being an Act to provide for the settlement of disputes in relation to interests in customary land, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act deals in a comprehensive manner with the settlement of disputes regarding disputes as to interests in customary land, or as to the position of boundaries of any customary land by adjudication or alternative dispute resolution.Its 75 sections are divided into 7 Parts: Preliminary (I); Provincial Land Disputes Committees (III); Mediation of land disputes (IV); Local Land Courts (IV); Provincial Land Courts (V); Offences (VI); Miscellaneous (VII).“Land” includes: a) a reef or bank; (b) a house or other structure built on land or over water; (c) things growing on land or in water over

  5. Library Resource

    An Act to establish a Land Titles Commission and provide for its constitution and jurisdiction, and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act establishes the land Titles Commission as an independent judicial tribunal for the resolution of disputes of rights in land, including an interest in land, whether arising out of and regulated by custom or otherwise, provides for judicial procedures and the extra-judicial settlement of disputes and some other matters. The Land Titles Commission for Papua New Guinea is established under section 3. The Chief Commissioner is responsible for the administration of the Commission and the co-ordination of the work of the Commissioners.

  6. Library Resource

    Being an Act to regulate the law relating to minerals and mining, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act provides for mining, including alluvial mining, and regulates in detail various aspects of mining tenements, i.e. (a) an exploration licence; (b) a special mining lease; (c) a mining lease; (d) an alluvial mining lease; (e) a lease for mining purposes; and (f) a mining easement, granted or deemed to have been granted under this Act.A tenement granted under this Act is not an interest in land for the purposes of the Land Act 1996 (sect. 2). The Head of State may grant a special mining lease on specific terms and conditions under section 33.

  7. Library Resource

    An Act to make provision with respect to searching for and producing petroleum and for matters connected therewith.

    Legislation
    Vanuatu, Oceania

    This Act consists of 66 sections divided into 6 Parts: Preliminary (1); Administration (2); Licences (3); Financial (4); Offences and penalties (5); General (6).Section1 contains a list of definitions. Sections 2 declares the property in, and control over, petroleum in its natural condition in land in the Republic is vested in the Republic and prohibits carrying on in any land in the Republic petroleum prospecting or development operations, except under, and in accordance with, a licence issued under this Act.

  8. Library Resource

    Being an Act to provide for the registration of surveyors and the regulation of the practice of land surveying, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act applies only to and in relation to surveys of the boundaries of, or for the purpose of the establishment, re-establishment or determination of titles to, land, and other surveys authorized by the Surveyor General (sect. 3). The Head of the Division of Surveys of the Department responsible for land matters is the Surveyor General, and is charged with the administration of this Act. The Papua and New Guinea Surveyors Board is established under section 6.

  9. Library Resource

    Being an Act to provide: (a) for the co-ordination of surveys; and (b) for the establishment of a Central Plan Office for the recording of surveys and plans, and information relating to surveys and plans, and for related purposes.

    Legislation
    Papua New Guinea, Oceania

    This Act provides for the control and coordination of land surveying and the carrying out of public surveys.“Survey” is defined in section 2. There shall be a Central Plan Office in the Office of the Surveyor General (sect. 3). A liaison officer shall be appointed in each public office under section 4. The Surveyor General may connect proposed surveys to existing surveys pursuant to section 6. For the purposes of this Act, there shall be established and maintained in the Central Plan Office a register, to be called the Central Plan Register (sect. 8).

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Solomon Islands, Oceania

    This Act provides for the ratification of the Mamara-Tasivarongo-Mavo Development Project Agreement, the establishment of the Mamara-Tasivarongo-Mavo Development Council, the disapplication of the Town and Country Planning Act to the development area and other matters related to development of the Mamara-Tasivarongo-Mavo area.The development area consists of (agricultural) lands held by the Commissioner and includes any other parcels of land adjoining such land which the Developer may acquire from the Commissioner for the purposes of the Development.

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