The present Law lays down provisions relating to land survey in Hamburg. Article 1 of the afore-mentioned Law establishes that the tasks of surveying bodies are the establishment, management and delivery of geo-data including the necessary surveying work. The text consists of 20 articles divided into 3 Parts as follows: General provisions (1); Geo-basis data, cadastre (2); Other provisions (3).

This Act concerns the administration of real estate and personal property of a deceased person by an administrator or executor by will. The Act also makes provision for the distribution of estates under intestate and other administration or disposal of assets. The Administrator and Registrar General shall initiate the procedure for Letters of Administration. The estate of every person dying intestate after the date of the operation of this Act shall devolve upon the Administrator and Registrar-General.

These Regulations amend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 in provisions concerning exempted development. A planning exemption is being introduced in respect of remedial works carried out in compliance with an advisory notice from a water services authority requiring remediation in cases where septic tanks or other onsite waste water treatment systems have been assessed by the water services authority as causing or likely to cause a risk to human health or the environment.