The present Decision provides for the approval of the Action Plan on the conservation and sustainable development of submerged areas in the 2004-2010 period, aiming at the protection, rehabilitation and social community awareness relating to the wetlands and its possible environmental, economic, social and biodiversity potential.

Articles 6, 9, 14, 30 have either been amended or new paragraphs have been added. The present Law also amends new articles of the Village Law of 1924, the Law on Natural Disasters 1959, and the Tourism Incentives Act of 1982. The formation of the technical teams is re-defined. The in-forest pastures and grazelands are re-defined by a committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and cannot be used for any other purposes unless their allocation purposes are modified.

The Minister may from time to time, subject to the laws governing the public service, by notice in the Gazette establish deeds registries and sub-deeds registries within the area of deeds registries and, subject to the provisions of this Act or any other law, determine the registration acts or other acts which are required or permitted to be performed in any such registry, or amend any such determination.

The Regulation provides for the registration and licensing mandatory to conduct geodesic and cartographic activities.

The following amendments must be introduced in the text of the Federal Law No.122-FZ on state registration of immovable property and its transactions: 1) in the Article 8 (issue 2) the wording “state body (organization) entitled to carry out state registration and technical inventory of the objects of immovable property” must be substituted with the wording “organization (body) entitled to carry out registration of immovables”; in the Article 8 (issue 3) the wording “state bodies (organizations) entitled to carry out state registration and technical inventory of the objects of immovable pro

The Act makes provision for the registration of titles in land, effect of registration, protection of persons dealing in registered land, disposition of land or a title in land in general, acquisition of land or transfer of rights in land under certain titles such as prescription and easement, and related matters.The Act consists of 161 sections divided into 12 Parts: Preliminary (I); Organization and administration (II); Effect of registration (III); Certificate and searches (IV); Dispositions (V); Instruments and agents (VI); Transmissions and trusts (VII); Restraints on dispositions (VII

The Premier decrees that the Federal Agency on Management of State Property is federal executive body authorized to carry out functions on management of state property, including land relations, functions regarding rendering state services and law enforcement functions in the sphere of property relations. The Federal Agency on Management of State Property is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

By this Act it is declared for the removal of doubt that the provisions of the Bills of Sale Acts, 1878-1882, of the United Kingdom, requiring the registration and re-registration of Bills of Sale under those Acts, are not in force and have not, since the commencement of the Lands and Deeds Registry Act, been in force in Zambia.

The Premier decrees that the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade is a federal executive body authorized to carry out functions as regards elaboration of state policy and normative and legal regulation in the sphere of economic development, international trade, internal trade, management of federal property, management of material reserve and cadastre of immovables.

The present Law establishes legal, organizational and financial basis for carrying out state expertise of land use documentation and the modalities of tits carrying out. State expertise of land use documentation is activity aimed at valuation, control and analysis of the objects of expertise for the purpose of the compliance thereof with the legislative requirements, standards, norms and instructions, and also elaboration of substantiated conclusions for decision-making as regards the objects of the expertise.

Regional Legislative Assembly decrees to extend the sphere of application of Land Code on the regional territory from the date of validation of the present Regional Decree, except for Articles 47-51 that entry into force from the date of validation of the Regional Law on land charges. The provisions of Land Code are applicable to the relations coming into existence after the extension of Land Code to the regional territory. Regional Legislative Assembly is competent authority in the following issues pertaining to the sphere of land relations : 1.

This Order relates to the Protected Areas and Protected Places Act (Chapter 256) and lists the protected areas in the Schedule.