This Law provides for land use and development planning in Guernsey and control over development. Its purposes are to protect and enhance, and to facilitate the sustainable development of, the physical environment of Guernsey, to protect natural beauty to preserve and promote biological diversity. A Strategic Land Planning Group shall be appointed from various state offices and shall Strategic Land Planning Group be involved in the preparation or amendment of the Strategic Land Use Plan.

Article 4 shall be amended to acquire a new wording: “Formation of a new land plot shall not be allowed if it is incorporated into irrigated agricultural land and (or) drained land if its area is less than minimum area set by regional authorities for irrigated and drained agricultural land”. Article 6 shall be amended to acquire a new wording: “Plot of agricultural land can be expropriated if it is used with violation of rational land use requirements entailing agricultural land fertility reduction of deterioration of ecological situation”.

According to Law No. 10257, the Section of Land Administration and Protection is replaced with the Directorate of Land Administration and Protection. At local level, it is created the Department of Land Administration and Protection (DLAP) composed by the land administration section and the land protection inspectorate. The DLAP prepares and submits for approval to the municipal authorities all the requests and documentation for land leasing, exploitation and other forms of ownership transfer. Its duties and tasks are further enumerated.

This Act provides special rules relative to the integrated approach for the improvement of the quality of areas that are particularly problematic as regards town and country planning, nature, forest resources, recreation, water and the environment in general (concentration areas). A reconstruction shall take place in concentration areas in accordance with this Act.

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of soil conservation, improvement and rational management of agricultural land in the process of economic activities. The scope of this Regional Law shall be to ensure soil improvement of agricultural land. Each plot of agricultural land shall be issued soil fertility certificate in accordance with soil, agrochemical, phytosanitary, ecological and toxicological analysis and it shall be transferred to owners, tenants and laeseholders of agricultural land.

Article 16 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Minimum land area of drained agricultural land shall be 0,9ha. The aforesaid land parcel shall be consolidated with the consideration of technological scheme of drainage system with a view of purposeful use thereof”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 7/2008-OZ “On some issues of legal regulation of land relations”. (2009-06-04)

Article 19 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Official data related to transactions with agricultural land shall be subject to mandatory regular publication in “Compendium of regional laws and legislative acts” and in public print media instituted by local government in which territory land parcel is located”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 7/2008-OZ “On some issues of legal regulation of land relations”. (2009-06-04)

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Multi-child families, with three or more children of 18 to 23 years of age living in rural areas plots of public land shall be granted free of charge for individual housing construction, gardening, horticulture and subsistence farming on conditions that the aforesaid children are studying in general educational institutions attending full-time course of studies”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 7/2008-OZ “On some issues of legal regulation of land relations”. (2009-06-04)

Article 8 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Agricultural land parcels shall be purchased in ownership at the price of 15 percent of cadastre value of agricultural land”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 217-28-OZ “On turnover of agricultural land”. (2009-09-23)

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “This Regional law establishes that maximum land parcels of public and municipal land that can be allotted to citizens for subsistence farming on condition of ownership or other types of land tenure shall be 2, 5 ha and on urban land for horticulture 0,5 ha”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 147-ZS “On minimum and maximum land parcels of public and municipal land that can be allotted to citizens for gardening and horticulture”. (2006-12-29)

Article 3.1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Dispute settlement related to dimensions of agricultural land area and location of the boundaries thereof shall be resolved in court”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 8-ZS “On regulation of some issues related to turnover of agricultural land”. (2007-07-10)

This Regional Law establishes maximum total land area that can be owned or belong in any other form to citizens carrying out subsistence farming. Maximum land area of agricultural land cannot exceed 2 ha per each subsistence farm. In case of excess of the aforesaid limit the exceeding land area must be expropriated within one year from the date of origin of the aforesaid rights or within the same time period the citizen must be registered as individual entrepreneur in the form of peasant farm.