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PacLII stands for the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. It is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law movement, (FALM) a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
USP School of Law is based in Port Vila and has students located across 12 countries of the Pacific who do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.
PacLII collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org which is hosted by AustLII. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The materials consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals, panels, Ombudsmens reports or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. PacLII is now seeking to expand its collections to include law related materials such as subject specific papers and reports. PacLII is also developing a series of subject specific libraries utilising predetermined search technology. An Intellectual Property and a Maritime Law Library have been created and more are planned. A number of Pacific Islands Treaties are also available but direct access to the database has been suspended due to a current lack of capacity.
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Displaying 61 - 65 of 298Foreshore Development (Amendment) Act 2013 (No. 17 of 2013).
This Act amends the Foreshore Development Act with respect to, among other things: consent of Minister required for foreshore development and lapse of consent; powers of an enforcement officer (defined by this Act); registration of existing developments; offences; Minister’s power to make Regulations. The Schedule to the principal Act is repealed.
Amends: Foreshore Development Act (Cap. 90). (2006)
Customary Land Tribunal (Repeal) Act 2013 (No. 34 of 2013).
This Act repeals the Land Tribunal Act. Vanuatu enacted on 16 January 2014 the Custom Land Management Act 2013, which assigns a role in customary land disputes to nakamals and custom area land tribunals.
Repeals: Customary Land Tribunal Act (Cap. 271) (2006)
Solomon Islands Water Authority Act 1992 (No. 16 of 1992).
This Act establishes the Water Authority as a body corporate. The objects of the Authority shall be: (a) to ensure that water resources allocated for urban water supply are properly managed, distributed, allocated and used in ways which are consistent with proper water management practices; (b) to provide water and related services to meet the needs for users in a commercial manner consistent with the overall policies of the Government.
Land (Ownership of Freeholds) Act 1976.
The main purpose of this Act is to implement section 56(1)(b) (other rights and privileges of citizens) of the Constitution by defining: (a) the forms of ownership that are to be regarded as freehold; and (b) the corporations that are to be regarded as citizens, for the purposes of implementation of provisions regarding freehold ownership rights.
Lands Act 1976 (Act No. 13 of 1976).
Section 3 prohibits transfer inter-vivos of the freehold of any land in Nauru to any person other than a Nauruan person. Such transfer or purported transfer, or any agreement to execute any such transfer, shall be absolutely void and of no effect. Section 4 guarantees validity of existing titles in land, acts relating to land, etc. under the present Act. Sections 5 to 17 concern lease of land for purposes of mining of phosphate and concern certain aspects of use of such land, e.g. removal of sand, removal of trees and vegetation, etc.