This Act provides for the control on the development of land and for this purpose establishes the Development Control Authority. "It shall be the duty of the Authority to institute a survey of the State, examining the matters which may be expected to affect the development of the State or the planning of its development and in any event to keep all such matters under review" (sect. 6(1)). For the purposes of subsection (1), the Authority shall prepare a survey of matters mentioned in subsection (1) and a Development Plan as described in subsection (3) of section 6.

Section 2 (definitions) is amended by adding definitions of "survey and measurement", and "registered records". Section 7 is completely rewritten It provides for the circumstance in which the effective boundaries of a recorded area are not corresponding with the actual survey. A new section (8A) relative to replacement of old records of newly surveyed areas, is added. Section 11A concerns the preparation of land-ownership certificates.

Amends: Land (Survey and Measurement) Act, 1963. (1979-11-21)

La présente loi a pour but de permettre l'application de la législation fédérale en matière de mensuration officielle et d'information géographique. L’article 3 établit que le Conseil d’Etat est responsable de l’exécution de la mensuration officielle e liste les tâches dont il est chargé. Le texte comprend 47 articles répartis en 5 sections comme suit: Dispositions générales (1er); Organisation (2); Premier relevé et renouvellement (3); Rectification (4); Diffusion de données et de plans (5).

"Land" in this Act means all categories of land, including tanks, ponds, and forest land (sect. 2). The Government may issue orders for purposes of land measurement by the authority prescribed by rules made under the present Act (sect. 3). Sections 4 and 5 make provision for the measurement of land and the demarcation of boundaries of specified lands. Section 6 make provision for land survey operations. After survey, measurement, and registration the prescribed authority shall issue a certificate of registration under section 8.

La présente ordonnance met en exécution l’article 2 de la loi cantonale sur la mensuration officielle et l'information géographique du 16 mars 2006. Notamment, l’article 1er établit que les limites communales doivent correspondre avec les limites des biens-fonds.

This Act makes provision for matters of partition in the relation with the development of land.It defines sectional ownership of immovable property and provides rules relative to common ownership. Development schemes shall be approved by the Director of Surveys and Mapping. The Act further provides for, among other things, formation of associations that shall govern a development scheme and common property, registration of rights and exclusive use of common properties and servitudes.

These Regulations make amendments to the Land Registration Rules 1972 to 2007 in relation with the application in electronic form for cancellation of a registered charge and relating production of a certificate of charge.

Amends: Land Registration Rules, 1972. (1972-10-02)

This Regional Law validates the list of grounds for refusal of validation of land use planning schemes: (a) use of different systems of coordinate than the regional ones used for state cadastre of immovable property; (b) imprecise and inaccurate coordinates related to the location of land plots; (c) used of wrong mapping methods; (d) absence in the state information systems of data and information permitting to verify submitted coordinates; and (e) absence in the state cadastre of data and information on coordinates of land plot.

This Act concerns the registration and practice of land surveyors. It consists of 34 sections and 3 Schedules.

This Decree establishes the modalities of making amendments to the boundaries of plots of land, tracing new boundaries and insertion of updated data into land cadastre information system. Annex 1 contains the form of notification on change of the boundaries of land plots.

These Rules of the Head of State, made under section 92(1) of the Land Titles Registration Act 2008, provide for the registration of title or other interests in land and specifically for the service of a Notice by the Registrar under section 5(1)(h) of the Act and attestation of execution of any instrument requiring attestation, which is executed in Samoa. Nothing in these regulations affects ownership of customary land held within the meaning of Article 101(2) of the Constitution or alienates customary land within the meaning of Article 102 of the Constitution.

Le présent arrêté fixe les détails des attributions des sections de la Direction Nationale des Domaines et du Cadastre, notamment la division de la législation et du contentieux; la division des domaines et de la curatelle; la division du cadastre et de la propriété foncière; et la division des études et des recettes.