The purpose of the present Law is to safeguard the public interest on the occasion of the transfer of land or parts thereof, taking into account the need to comply with the principles of a sustainable protection of the environment, nature and landscape.

The present Law lays down provisions relating to conditions of farmland in Salzburg. With a view to the creation and maintenance of an efficient and sustainable agriculture and forestry, conditions of farmlands shall by improved or newly created by applying modern economic principles, as well as land consolidations.

The present Law lays down provisions relating to conditions of farmland in Burgenland. With a view to the creation and maintenance of an efficient and sustainable agriculture and forestry, conditions of farmlands shall by improved or newly created by applying modern economic principles, as well as land consolidations. The text consists of 108 articles divided into 3 Parts as follows: General provisions (I). This Part deals with consolidation of agricultural and forestry lands; consolidation of land in vine yards; consolidation of forestry land and clearing of farm land.

The present Law lays down provisions relating to conditions of farmland in Kärnten. Part I contains: Consolidation of agricultural and forestry land (art. 1); Special provisions for consolidation of forestry land (art. 2); Re-allocation of land (art. 3). Part II deals with sub-division of agricultural land, and regulates the common use and administrative matters. Part III concerns competent authorities and proceedings. The text consists of 46 articles divided into 3 Parts.

This Act empowers the Director of Agriculture to make Land Preservation Orders under section 3 for purposes set out in subsection 2 of section 3. In such Orders the Director may, for reasons of protection of soil and other preservation of land, prohibit, regulate or control braking or clearing of land for cultivation, grazing of livestock, and the destruction of vegetation and may require or regulate afforestation, protection of slopes or catchment areas, drainage of land, supervision of abandoned land, and the use of land for agricultural purposes.

This Act provides for the establishment of the Agricultural Finance Corporation and regulates the granting of loans to farmersThe Act consists of 48 sections divided into 7 Parts: Preliminary (I); The Agricultural Finance Corporation (II); Loans (III); General provisions as to loans (IV); Powers of Corporation (V); Accounts of Corporation (VI); Miscellaneous (VII).The functions of the Agricultural Finance Corporation, here established under section 3, shall be to assist in the development of agriculture and agricultural industries by making loans to farmers, cooperatives and other public or

The Act, consisting of 15 Parts completed by 17 Schedules, concerns the management of public land in the territory of Victoria. The Act consists of 416 sections and is divided into the following Parts: Crown Lands Generally; Leases of Agricultural College Lands; Development Leases; Leases and Licences for Electric Lines; General; Vacant and Unclaimed Lands; Bed and Banks of Certain Watercourses; Unused Roads and Water Frontages; Limitation of Jurisdictions for Supreme Court; Regulations and Transitional provisions.

This Act provides that the Minister may appoint an officer to partition and re-allot of areas described in the Schedule. The powers of such person are the same as officers appointed under District Lands Partition and Re-allotment Act, being the principal Act. The Minister may under certain conditions change the Schedule to this Act. (4 sections)

This Regional Law regulates the issues of agricultural land. It establishes that minimum consolidated land area of agricultural land shall be 0, 1 ha and maximum agricultural land area located within the boundaries of a single municipal unit that can be owned by a single natural or legal person shall not exceed 10 percent of total available agricultural land area. Minimum period of lease of plots of agricultural land shall be set forth as follows: (a) for haymaking and grazing – 3 months; (b) for growing of annual plants – 9 months; and (c) for growing of perennial plants – 3 years.

This Regional Law regulates some issues in the sphere of land relations except for those related to agricultural land. It establishes minimum and maximum land areas for land plots pertaining to public and municipal land in ownership to citizens in accordance with the following criteria: (a) gardening – from 0, 05 ha to 0, 15 ha; (b) horticulture – from 0, 02 ha to 0, 10 ha; (c) for stockbreeding – from 0, 02 ha to 0, 10 ha; (d) suburban housing construction – from 0, 06 ha to 0, 25 ha; and (e) peasant farming – up to 75 ha, including agricultural land – up to 50 ha.

The purpose of this Act is to discover legal transactions concluded in the past and intended to elude resctrictive legal provisons concerning the aquisition of property and use of agricultural land, to prevent legal effects related to such transactions and to put an end to the illigal status.

This Regional Act sets forth rules and principles governing the conservation of soil, which is deemed to be a non renewable resource, essential for the protection of landscapes and ecosystem preservation. The regional authority, as well as local entities, are responsible for coordinating development policies and the preservation of surfaces of agricultural lands. To this end the Act provides for the identification of agricultural lands falling within the regional territory (art. 2) and provides for the lease of land to young farmers.