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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 236 - 240 of 298Native Lands (Amendment) Act 2000 (No. 1 of 2000).
These amendments and contemporary changes to the Land Planning Ordinance, are part of institutional strengthening of the lands and survey work particularly for South Tarawa. By defining subdivision in the Ordinance (clause 2), and by adding Part VIA- Subdivision, persons who wish to divide a plot of land must satisfy the Court that there is sufficient land for the families on each of the subdivided parts. This brings the law on subdivision in line with the law on sale or lease or sublease.
Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)
Native Land Trust (Amendment) Decree, 1988 (No. 43 of 1988).
The principal Act is amended by replacing the expression "Governor-General" wherever it appears in the Native Land Trust Act by the expression "President of Fiji".
Amends: Native Land Trust Act. (1985)
Town Planning (Amendment) Act 1995.
Section 45 of the Town Planning Act (Regulation making powers of the Minister) is amended by: (a) numbering the existing provision as subsection "(1)"; (b) adding the following provisions as subsections "(2)" and "(3)" respectively: "(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), the Minister may make Regulations prescribing fees to be paid to the Director in respect of applications for approval of all development and planning applications made under this Act. (3) All fees received by the Director shall be paid by him into the Consolidated Fund".
Amends: Town Planning Act. (1966)
Preservation of Objects of Archaeological and Palaeontological Interest Act.
This Act prescribes that, unless authorised by a permit issued by the Board of Trustees, no person shall by means of excavation or surface operations search for any object of archaeological or palaeontological interest. Such permit shall, so far as is practicable, be in Form A set out in the Schedule. A permit may specify, in regard to the acts which it authorises, such limitations and conditions as the Board may consider necessary.
Town Planning (Amendment) Act 1997 (No. 8 of 1997).
The Town Planning Act is amended by in section 26 in subsection "(2)" by the addition of the following proviso at the end: "Provided that every owner or occupier of land within the area covered by a scheme shall have a right of objection to an alteration or addition to a scheme, and may, by notice in writing addressed to the local authority give notice of such objection, and of the grounds thereof, at any time within one month after the first public notification of the alteration or addition to the scheme as required by this Section." Section 44 ("Penalties not otherwise provided for, etc."