The Regulation implements provisions of the Land (Ownership of Freeholds) Act 1976 with respect to lease and registration of title in freehold land. Article 2 concerns the application by the owner of any freehold land or the holder of any frustrated right for the grant of a substitute lease in substitution for his freehold interest or frustrated right. Article 5 provides with respect to notices of objection. A substitute lease granted in accordance with a proposal shall be in Form 3.

For the purposes of Section 7 of the Land (Tenure Conversion) Act, an application for registration shall be in the form in the Schedule to this Regulation. Subject to this Act, a citizen may apply to the Commission in the prescribed form for registration in his or its name of any customary land or of an interest in customary land.

Implements: Land (Tenure Conversion) Act 1963. (2006)

This Act deals in a comprehensive manner with the settlement of disputes regarding disputes as to interests in customary land, or as to the position of boundaries of any customary land by adjudication or alternative dispute resolution.Its 75 sections are divided into 7 Parts: Preliminary (I); Provincial Land Disputes Committees (III); Mediation of land disputes (IV); Local Land Courts (IV); Provincial Land Courts (V); Offences (VI); Miscellaneous (VII).“Land” includes: a) a reef or bank; (b) a house or other structure built on land or over water; (c) things growing on land or in water over

This Act establishes the land Titles Commission as an independent judicial tribunal for the resolution of disputes of rights in land, including an interest in land, whether arising out of and regulated by custom or otherwise, provides for judicial procedures and the extra-judicial settlement of disputes and some other matters. The Land Titles Commission for Papua New Guinea is established under section 3. The Chief Commissioner is responsible for the administration of the Commission and the co-ordination of the work of the Commissioners.

This Act regulates land tenure in villages established pursuant to a settlement and resettlement program in the 1970's. Section 3 provides for the extinguishment of all rights to occupy or to use land in accordance with any customary law existing or held or claimed to be held by any person in any village. Compensation shall not be paid for the loss of any right or interest in or over land which has been extinguished.

La présente ordonnance complète le dispositif législatif en matière forestière et donne un fondement juridique à l'intervention de l'Office national des forêts (ONF) et aux actes de gestion durable : elle étend l'essentiel du code forestier à la Guyane, avec les adaptations et dispositions spécifiques rendues nécessaires par le contexte et les enjeux particuliers de la forêt guyanaise. Cette ordonnance va permettre de s'engager dans une démarche d'écocertification. Le code du domaine de l'Etat est également modifié pour tenir compte de ces adaptations.

This Act consists of 66 sections divided into 6 Parts: Preliminary provisions (I); Application of fundamental principles of the National Land Policy (II); Transfers and hazard land (III); Village lands (IV); Dispute settlement (V); Miscellaneous provisions (VI). The President may transfer any area of village land to general or reserved land for public interest (sect. 4). Village land transfer shall not be transferred until the type, amount and timing of the payment of compensation has been agreed upon. The Minister may declare any area of a village land to be hazard land.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to expropriation of land.

This Chapter provides for various matters relative to title in ancestral and for the creation of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission. Ancestral Lands shall mean those lands owned privately by residents of Guam on or after January 1, 1930. Section 2 affirms responsibility of the government of Guam to enforce rights in private property, as a civil right, pursuant to the laws of the United States of America applicable to Guam and the Laws of Guam and provides otherwise for the recognition of ancestral land rights.

This Chapter provides for various matters regarding the Chamorro Land Trust Commission, for the grant of leases to a native Chamorros and relates matters and provides for loans for the development of Chanorro communities and lands and for the establishment of various Funds for these purposes. There is within the government of Guam the Chamorro Land Trust Commission. The Commission shall grant leases and otherwise be responsible for the development of Chamorro lands.

This Chapter provides for the management and other matters of Government land. It consists of 8 Articles divided into sections. Article 1 contains general provisions. The Department of Land Management shall have authority of all government real property for purposes of this Chapter. The Director of Land Management may, when necessary, reserve or set aside government real property not reserved by law for specific public use for the future use of any other department or agency of the government pursuant to section 5.

This Chapter provides for public access to the ocean shore, i.e. land between the mean low waterline and series of lines connecting angle points prescribed in section 3. Extensive areas of ocean shore are inaccessible to the public due to the absence of public rights-of-way and the ocean is a vital part of the patrimony of the people of Guam and is a major source of recreation and livelihood. In order to safeguard access to the ocean shore this Chapter provides for protection and maintenance of traditional rights of way to the ocean.