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PacLII

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PacLII stands for the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. It is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law movement, (FALM) a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

 

USP School of Law is based in Port Vila and has students located across 12 countries of the Pacific who do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.

 

PacLII collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org which is hosted by AustLII. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

 

The materials consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals, panels, Ombudsmens reports or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. PacLII is now seeking to expand its collections to include law related materials such as subject specific papers and reports. PacLII is also developing a series of subject specific libraries utilising predetermined search technology. An Intellectual Property and a Maritime Law Library have been created and more are planned. A number of Pacific Islands Treaties are also available but direct access to the database has been suspended due to a current lack of capacity.

 

Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute Resources

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Library Resource
Regulations
Cook Islands, Oceania

These Regulations amend the Leases Restrictions Regulations 1977 by inserting new provisions concerning criteria to be applied by the Tribunal in a decision on any application for approval of a lease, sublease, assignment of lease or assignment of sublease to a non-resident. The criteria of assignment of lease concern citizenship of the Cook Islands, procedures regarding information to natives and consent of assembled owners resident on the island.

Library Resource

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the conveyancing and the Law of Property in England and Wales.

Legislation
Tuvalu, Oceania

This Act provides rules relative to real property and in particular to the lease and disposal of land.The Act prescribes rules relative to the manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers, creation and disposition of equitable interests, vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner, leasehold, rights on real property in case of infancy, lunacy or death, common ownership, registration of rights, etc.

Library Resource

An Act for the amendment of the Wills Act 1837.

Legislation
Tuvalu, Oceania

This Act amends the Wills Act, 1837 with regard to the form of a will, the extension of the application of provisions of the principal to existing wills and the interpretation of “will”.

Amends: Wills Act, 1837 (CAP. 26). (1837-07-03)

Library Resource

An Act for the amendment of Laws with respect to Wills.

Legislation
Tuvalu, Oceania

This United Kingdom Act, applicable to Tuvalu, regulates matters relative to wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance with special regard to customary freeholds and copyholds.

Amended by: Wills Amendment Act 1852 (Cap. 24). (1852-06-17)

Library Resource

An Act to provide for the distribution of estates among members of the Royal Family.

Legislation
Tonga, Oceania

This Act declares that the King may by will or by deed or by any other means confer on and grant to any person s specified title in land and other real property. This title shall become hereditary but where a person cannot succeed to, or continue to hold, the title and estates for specified reasons, the title and estates shall revert to the Crown.

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