This Joint Decree validates the form of land mortgage contract for the plots of land in private ownership.

This Joint Decree establishes that separate land plots can be transferred in mortgage for land based credits. Legal persona and natural persons that are Belarus nationals can be mortgagers if their ownership right to land plot is certified by state land certificate. Banks authorized by the President of Belarus shall be mortgagees. Amount of credit and the modalities of extinction thereof shall be determined by credit contract and mortgaged contract.

This Act provides with respect to limitation of judicial action in relation with land-related rights. Actions include the recovery of land, rent or mortgage. The Act also concerns rights of tenants and the acquiescence of boundaries.

This Act concerns the partition of land and relative legal proceedings, such as a suit of partition and sale of property, and the legal consequences of partition.

Amended by: Partition Act (Increase in Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates) Order, 20l3. (2013-01-15)

This Act sets out rules relative to conveyancing of title in property, including land, and related matters such as rights related to leases and mortgages.The rules concern, among other things, contracts of sale, procedures for transactions, the role of court in case of encumbrances or other legal complications, conveyance of easements and other land-related rights, conveyance in case of statutory mortgage, rights of mortgagees in relation to timber on mortgaged property, covenants as to lease and mortgage and construction and effects of deeds and other instruments.

This Act concerns the validation of bona fide voluntary conveyance of lands, tenements or hereditaments. “Conveyance” includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in specified enactments. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments has subsequently, but before the passing of this Act disposed of or dealt with the same lands, tenements, or hereditaments to or in favour of a purchaser for value.

This Act sets out rules for the sale, partition, lease, administration by trustees, mortgaging, exchange, etc. of settled land and certain rights related to the use of such land. The Act sets out criteria and definitions as to what land is considered settled land. It defines the right of a tenant for life in respect of such land including lease of land for mining purposes. The Act sets out certain rules applicable to mining leases.

Amended by: Settled Land Act (Increase in Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates) Order, 2013. (2013-01-15)

This Law regulates relations regarding housing facilities, including plots of land pertaining to common property of condominiums. In case of demolition of residential building because of expropriation for public needs of the plot of land on which it was located the owner shall have the right to another residential space or compensation at his choice (art. 15). Transfer of residential space shall entail transfer of land ownership (land tenure) rights to a new owner (art. 19).

This Law establishes the purpose, obligations and legal grounds regarding the registration of immovable property and related transactions. The following rights to immovable property shall be subject to state registration: (a) ownership; (b) economic management; (c) operating management; (d) land tenure of at least one year; and (e) servitude for a period of no less than one year. The following pre-emptive rights shall not require mandatory state registration: (a) land tenure for a period less than one year; and (b) servitude for a period less than one year.

The purpose of this Ordinance is to grant the Government with the right to acquire private land by resumption for the implementation of public projects.The Government shall publish in the Gazette a Government Notice advising that the resumption of a particular land is required for a public purpose.

This Ordinance establishes the Land Registry for the registration of instruments affecting land.All deeds, conveyances and other instruments registered shall have priority one over the other according to the dates of registration as provided for in the Ordinance.The Ordinance further provides for the following matters: registration of lis pendens; vacation of registration of lis pendens; mode of application to vacate a lis pendens; obligation of Land Register to register; etc.

The present Regulations provide for the enactment of the Provincial Lands Act. In particular, the Regulations lay down comprehensive provisions relating to the lease, purchase and sale of agricultural land. The text consists of 7 Parts as follows: Interpretation (I); Sale of lands (II); Purchase of land (IIA); Exchange of land (IIB); Leases and permits (III); Sand and gravel (III.1); Easements (IV); Improvements (V); Recovery of debts (VI); General provisions (VII).

Implements: Provincial Lands Act (R.S.S. 1978, c. P-31). (2015)