The United Kingdom Act regulates matters of wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. A general devise of the testator's lands shall include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold lands, in the absence of a contrary intention (sect. 26).
Amended by: Wills Amendment Act, 1852. (1852-06-17)
This Act provides for recognition and protection of titles in land, administration of land, use of land for public purposes, the land court and adjudication and various other matters relating to land.The Act consists of 170 sections divided into 10 Parts: General (I); Administration (II); Hereditary estates (III); Tax and town allotments (IV); Tongan leases (V); Mortgages (VI); The Foreshore (VII); Registration of title (VIII); Land for public purposes (IX); The Land Court (X).Section 3 declares all land of Tonga to be property of the Crown.
Section 149 of the principal Act defines the jurisdiction of the Land Court. The jurisdiction of the Court is enlarged by adding a subsection (e) to section 149: The Court may now hear and determine any question or amount of damages, loss, compensation, mesne profit, rent or claim in respect of any allotment, lease, sublease. permit or interests of any kind in any land. Section 152 of the principal Act concerns Orders of Court regarding court proceedings.
Amends: Land Act. (1988)
Section 138 of the principal Act concerns Crown land shall to be reserved for public purposes. This amendment concerns consultation of the Minister of Lands with the Minister of Health on the suitability of land to be used for specified purposes.
Amends: Land Act. (1988)
This Act vests the ownership of the foreshore and sea-bed in the Crown, subject to the public rights of: (a) navigation and fishing, and (b) of passing over the foreshore, and to any private rights that may exist in or over the foreshore or the sea-bed. The Minister may by notice, after consultation with landowners, designate a foreshore of an island or islet or any part thereof. No person shall remove from a designated foreshore any sand, gravel, reef mud, coral, rock or other like substance without first having obtained from the Chief Lands Officer a licence for that purpose.
The Act regulates the acquisition of land by the Crown for public purposes. 'Public purposes' is defined in section 2.
This Act provides for the compulsory acquisition or acquisition by agreement of neglected land and the subsequent sale of such land to natives. “Neglected land” means land suitable for agricultural use which is not being fully and efficiently utilized for agricultural purposes. The owner of land may be required to show cause why land is not neglected land and the owner of land found to be neglected, may be required to ensure the utilization of such land.
This Act makes provision for procedures in relation with the alienation of public land through lease or sale. The Land Board may by public notice call for applications from the public for any Government land available for alienation by way of lease or sale under the principal Act. Where the Board has determined that certain Government lands are available for alienation by way of sale it shall first obtain the approval of Cabinet for the alienation by way of sale of such lands. Lands shall be sold by tenders for which procedures are set out.
This Act concerns the grant of interests in freehold and public land to foreign public entities.
This Act regulates the functioning and powers of village assemblies called Village Fono. The Registrar of the Land and Titles Court shall compile and keep up to date a register of Village Fono in which shall be recorded the name of every village in which a Village Fono is functioning. Every Village Fono in the exercise of any power or authority shall exercise the same in accordance with the custom and usage of that village.
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