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Displaying 2781 - 2785 of 15550Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993.
The objects of this Act, consisting of 53 sections divided into seven Parts and completed by two Schedules, are as follows: a) to foster, in community services and programs, and in related services and programs, an atmosphere in which complaints and independent monitoring are viewed positively as ways of enhancing the delivery of those services and programs, b) to provide for the resolution of complaints about community services and programs, especially complaints by persons who are eligible to receive, or receive, those services, by families and by persons advocating on behalf of such pers
Presidential Decree No.631 of 1992 regarding validation of the Regulation on sale of the plots of land in the process of privatization of state and municipal enterprises, expansion and additional construction of such enterprises and also conceded to ci...
The President decrees to validate the Regulation and to establish that the following categories of land are not subject to sale: land of general use in the inhabited areas (squares, streets, parks, amenity forests, etc.), lands of protected areas, of cultural heritage, recreational land, agricultural land, land destined for use and protection of subsoil, contaminated areas and the plots of land of provisional tenancy.
Customary Law (Declaration) Act 1990.
Pursuant to Article X, Section 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, it is hereby declared as a matter of customary law that in cases involving title disputes between Iroijlablab title claimants, the Alabs of the directly affected lands shall have the ability and obligation to determine the rightful holder of the Iroijlablab title.
Customary Law Commission Act 1989.
In keeping with the objective of the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to declare by Act the customary law of the land, there is hereby established a Commission called the Customary Law Commission.
Regional Decree No. 615 “On the modalities of performance of municipal land control”.
This Regional Decree establishes the modalities of performance of municipal land control by local government. Municipal land control shall be conducted in the form of ordinary and extraordinary inspections of legal persons and individual entrepreneurs. The subject of inspection shall be checking data and information contained in the documentation related to land tenure. The scope of inspection shall be to control compliance by land tenant with compulsory legislative requirements related to land tenure with a view of prevention and suppression of unauthorized transactions with land.