This Law establishes exclusive plenary powers of the self-government bodies in the following areas: (a) management and disposal of public land resources; (b) land use planning; (c) management of local public forest and water resources; and (d) management of local water supply, drainage and sewerage systems (art. 16). The local self-governing representative bodies (Sakrebulo) shall have plenary powers in the following areas: (a) establishment of management rules and regulations applicable to local public land, forest and water resources; and (b) land use planning (art. 22).

This Act makes provision with respect to intestate succession and succession by will of estates including land and land-related rights. The Act sets out rules relative to inheritance and related distribution of estates in the case a person dies without having made a will. The Act also defines offences against persons entitled to inheritance or related to the deceased person.

This Chapter establishes procedures to be followed by the Government of the Trust Territory in the exercise of its power to acquire real property by eminent domain, i.e. to condemn property for public use or purposes and to appropriate the ownership and possession of such property for such public use upon paying the owner a just compensation to be ascertained according to the law.The Act concerns, among other things, proceedings at the High Court, the establishment of value of land by the High Court and determination of ownership in the event of dispute.

This Chapter concerns the procedures for the application for a permit “to excavate, fill or borrow” tidelands, defines traditional and customary rights of the people of the Chuuk State in respect of tidelands and the granting of (ownership) rights in respect of such land by the State to people of Chuuk. Tidelands within the meaning of the Chuuk Constitution are those marine lands from the shore to the face of the reef that are shallow enough for traditional fishing activity by women.

This Chapter makes provision for the survey and registration of land in the Trust Territory and provides that for this purpose there shall be a land commission in each administrative district of the Trust Territory. Each commission shall supervise surveys and proceed with the registration of as much of the land as practical within such registration areas within its district as it determines and may determine the ownership of any land in its district. Each commission shall appoint land registration teams and designate registration areas.

This Chapter makes provision with respect to rights relative to public lands as defined by this Chapter.

This Chapter concerns the determination of title or other legal interest in land in the State of Kosrae and the registration of such title or interest.For purposes of this Chapter, a land Court is established The Court shall succeed to all responsibilities, registers, properties and assets of the Land Commission. It may make orders and decisions regarding the determination of interests and registration of land, including the subdivision of any interest or rights in land and the determination of any claim of heirship to a deceased person's title or interest in lands.

This Act makes provision with respect to the creation of mortgages and consequences of such mortgages. The purpose of the Act is to establish a system of mortgage law in Yap State which will induce lenders to make secured commercial and residential loans, while at the same time ensuring that borrowers who execute mortgages of property in Yap State understand nature and consequences of the mortgage, and that the parties to the mortgage are protected against unfair practices.

These Regulations of the Chief Lands Officer, made under section 64 the Native Lands Act, prescribe forms for the register of claims to land and for a certificate of native adoption.

Implements: Native Lands Ordinance. (1978)

This Code of Laws, made under the Native Land Act, governs native land rights in specified islands of Tuvalu. The Code contains rules relative to land ownership rights and the limitation of such rights by the Land Court. The Code also concerns alienation of rights and the distribution of an estate inter vivos, in case of absentee owner, by will and without a will. Rules also concern exchanges of property, sale of property and use of (village and communal) land.

Implements: Native Lands Ordinance. (1978)

The present Regulation enacts sections 8 and 93.81 of the Land Act. In particular, the Regulation deals, amongst others, with the following matters: definitions, criteria for establishing land use objectives, orders that must be made available for public review and comment, review and comment on urgent orders by affected agreement holders, specifying conflicts with Forest and Range Practices Act objectives, content of order establishing or amending a land use objective, notice of order establishing or amending a land use objective.The text consists of 8 sections.

This Law aims at developing Agricultural Land Reserves as a result of the privatization of state-owned agricultural land, rational land tenure, and supporting market development for land.