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Public Purpose Land Exchange Authorization Act of 1937 (P.L. 5-33).

Legislation
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania

This Act authorizes the Marianas Public Land Corporation to enter into agreements by which the Government obtains freehold interest in private land in exchange for a freehold interest in private land to be assigned to a private landowner.Exchange of land shall be authorized for a public purpose as defined by this Act. The Act sets out the conditions at which an agreement may be made and defines some terms of the agreement. The Corporation may exchange land at its own initiative but “protected resources” and adjacent areas shall be excluded from public lands that may be exchanged.

Regional Law No. 27-OZ “On land of regional protected areas”.

Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

This Regional Law establishes criteria and modalities for classification of land of protected areas of regional significance, modalities of management, conservation and protection thereof. It specifies that the Regional Government shall have the right to establish land categories of protected areas that are not envisaged by the national land legislation.

Regional Law No. 174-OZ “On expropriation of public or municipal land for public and municipal needs”.

Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

This Regional Law establishes cases of expropriation, including repayment, of public or municipal land for public and municipal needs. Expropriation shall be performed in the following cases: (a) for public construction in accordance with land-use planning projects; (b) for realization of regional and municipal programs; (c) for conservation of the objects of cultural heritage in public ownership; (d) institution of new or extension of already existing protected areas; and (e) construction and reconstruction of objects partially or completely financed out of regional or local budget.

Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2010 (S.I. No. 654 of 2010).

Regulations
United Kingdom
Europe
Northern Europe

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 in relation to England only. The amendments concern, among other things: powers of local authorities pursuant to the principal Order to give directions so as to apply a specific planning permission required for development of a specified class in the area to which the direction applies; the procedure relating to such directions; other planning permissions; and other development.

Amends: Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order (S.I. 418 of 1995). (1995-02-22)

Announcement No. 39 of 2009 of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China laying down the Farmland Environmental Quality Evaluation Standards for Livestock and Poultry Production (National Environmental Protection Standard H...

China
Eastern Asia
Asia

The purpose of this Standard is to implement the Environmental Protection Law, prevent and control environmental pollution, protect human health, and protect the ecological environment.This standard specifies requirements for the water environment quality, soil environmental quality, ambient air quality and environmental quality evaluation index, limit value, monitoring and evaluation method of various livestock and poultry breeding areas. This standard only applies to livestock and poultry farms, livestock breeding areas and grazing areas permitted by law.

Traditional Owner Settlement (Negotiation Costs) Regulations, 2015.

Regulations
Australia
Oceania

The objective of these Regulations, consisting of four sections and one Form, is to prescribe the method for calculating the reasonable costs of negotiating land use activities. For the purposes of section 52(2) of the Act, the prescribed method for calculating the reasonable costs of negotiating under section 50 of the Act is the method that: (a) uses Form 1; and (b) includes any one or more of the following costs incurred by the traditional owner group entity in preparing for and conducting the negotiation: (i) decision-making costs; (ii) the cost of professional services.

Land Code of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Legislation
Russia
Tajikistan
Asia
Central Asia

The Land Code makes provision for the regulation of "land relations" and its purpose is to secure rational use and protection of land, the protection of the environment, and "the equal development of all forms of economic activity in Tajikistan" (Preamble). Other laws regulating land relations may be enacted on the basis of this Code.Land is declared to be in exclusive ownership if the State in article 2.

National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act, 2003 (No. 57 of 2003).

Legislation
South Africa
Southern Africa
Africa

The objectives of this Act are: (a) to provide, within the framework of national legislation, for the declaration and management of protected areas; (b) to provide for cooperative governance in the declaration and management of protected areas; (c) to effect a national system of protected areas in South Africa as part of a strategy to manage and conserve its biodiversity; (d) to provide for a representative network of protected areas on state land, private land and communal land; (e) to promote sustainable utilization of protected areas for the benefit of people, in a manner that would pres

Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. No. 373 of 2014).

Regulations
United Kingdom
Europe
Northern Europe

These Regulations further implement in Scotland the requirements of Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources by designating the revised vulnerable zones in accordance with Article 3(4) of the Directive. The Regulations also make consequential amendments to other Regulations.

Ley Nº 9/2001 - Ley del Suelo de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Legislation
Spain
Europe
Southern Europe

La presente Ley del Suelo de la Comunidad de Madrid, tiene por objeto la ordenación urbanística del suelo en la Comunidad de Madrid. La ordenación urbanística regula la utilización del suelo; los procesos de transformación de éste mediante la urbanización, la edificación y la construcción en general o cualquiera de las otras formas previstas en la presente Ley; y el uso, la explotación, la conservación y la rehabilitación de las obras, los edificios, las construcciones y las instalaciones.

National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago Act (Cap. 40:53).

Legislation
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean
Americas

This Act establishes the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago as a body corporate and provides that it shall be governed by rules set out in the Schedule. The Trust is establish for purposes of carrying out functions pursuant to the present Act, including listing of property of interest, preserving lands, plants and animal life, encourage research of wild fauna and flora, etc. Powers of the trust are outlined in section 6. Sections 8 and 9 provide for listing of places of particular interest. The Trust shall be administered by a Council. Section 27 prohibits damaging of listed property.