All amendments concern changes in wording of the sections concerned.

Amends: Land Development and Utilisation Law, 1981 (No. 21 of 1981). (1981-08-14)

The Act concerns the proper use of agricultural land, the establishment of the Land Development and Utilisation Commission as a control organ, and powers to enforce rules regarding the use of land.The Act consists of 23 sections divided into 4 Parts: Preliminary (I); Development and utilisation of land (II); Land Development and Utilisation Commission (III); General provisions (IV).The Land Development and Utilisation Commission, established under section 11, may with approval of the Minister responsible for agriculture, designate agricultural land under section 3.

The Campania Region promotes land reclamation interventions, which are considered to be of public interest since they help preserve the territory and, particularly, rural environments, and enable the rational utilization of water resources intended for agricultural uses. To these ends, the present Regional Act provides for the rearrangement of Land Reclamation Consortia and makes rules governing their functions and tasks, in compliance with the general principles laid down at national level in Act No. 183 of 1989 as well as in Act No. 36 of 1994.

The Act aims at the protection and development of rural territories, giving particular regard to the protection of the environment and the rational utilization of water resources for irrigation purposes. The Region shall operate in conjunction with reclamation consortia (art. 15), whose main tasks shall be the planning, realization and management of reclamation and irrigation interventions. The Technical Committee on Reclamation is set up by article 7.

It is hereby laid down the regional policy on mountain areas, which rests on the principles of subsidiarity and promotion of local autonomy. The Act covers the territories of Mountain Communities defined by Act No. 12 of 2002. The mountain policy shall pursue, among others, the protection of the environment, soil preservation and the strenghtening of economic activities in mountain areas. The overall aims shall be defined in the Development Plan of Mountain Areas by the Regional Council (art. 3). Further provisions regard the distribution of competences in this field among local entities.

Preliminary (I); Public land (II); Right of occupancy to land (III); Right of ownership of trees (IV); Grants of public lands (V), Leases (VI); Termination of rights of occupancy (VII); Miscellaneous provisions (VIII).All land in Zanzibar is declared to be public land and is vested in the President (sect. 3). Land taken by the Government is declared to be confiscated land and any irregularities in acquisition shall be resolved through procedures under the Land Adjudication Act. Section 5 concerns easements on banks of waterways.

The Act lays down provisions concerning regional planning activities as regards soil protection, control of land use and interventions for the conservation and transformation of soil. The provisions cover both agricultural and urban land. As regards agricultural land, the aims pursued are the safeguarding and improvement of the natural heritage as well as the rational and sustainable exploitation of natural resources. The Regions shall be responsible for planning in conjunction with the Communes and Mountain Communities.

The Law sets the maximum size ceilings of agricultural land which may belong to an individual, a family or an agricultural cooperative. Only in certain specific situations (e.g. inheritance) the amount of land may be in excess of the allowable size. The surplus of land shall be expropriated and the State shall pay compensation to the former owners.

The Regional Law establishes that privatization of the plots of agricultural land pertaining to state or municipal property on the regional territory begins from 1 January 2053.

Soil on which stable negative processes of change of the state of soil are under way as a result of anthropogenetic or natural factors is considered degraded. Soil conservation or its temporary exclusion from economic activity is carried out for the purpose of prevention and elimination of the processes of soil degradation, restoration of soil fertility and rehabilitation of contaminated territories.

Privatization of agricultural land belonging to state or municipal property on the regional territory begins from the date of entry into force of the present Regional Law. Minimum size for the newly formed plots of agricultural land for grain production is 300 hectares, for other agricultural purposes is 1 hectare. The Regional Law consists of 9 Articles. Article 1 determines the beginning of the privatization of agricultural land. Article 2 establishes the utmost size of the plots of agricultural land on the regional territory.

This Regional Law establishes size (maximum and minimum) of the plots of land that can be conceded to citizens for the purpose of farming, gardening, truck farming, animal husbandry and suburban housing construction out of stock of state and municipal land. Maximum size of the plots of land: for farming – 200 ha; for animal husbandry – 5 ha for each conventional head of livestock; for gardening, truck farming and suburban housing construction – 0, 5 ha.