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Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Vanuatu was adopted.
Vanuatu is a parliamentary republic.
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Displaying 26 - 30 of 69Chapter 3 of Title 49 of the Pohnpei State Code - Probate of Small Estates.
This Chapter provides rules relative to the probate of inheritance of small estate. It sets out procedures for and content of complaints regarding the transfer of decedent’s property to beneficiaries and creditors. There is also a procedure if debts exceed the value of assets to be inherited. The transferee shall be personally responsible for any property received by him or her under any order issued pursuant to this Chapter, and any party claiming an interest in such property may, after demand, maintain, within a specified period, an action against the transferee.
Chapter 9 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code - Mining and Dredging.
This Chapter authorizes the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to regulate the removal of mined and dredged materials located on Public Trust Lands in areas listed in this Chapter. Dredging and removal of dredged material at any other site is prohibited. The Chapter sets out conditions for the mining of sand in a specified marine area which shall be monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Division of Forestry and Marine Conservation and establishes certain conditions for mining and dredging in general. A permit for such activities shall be obtained from the Board.
Chapter 1 of Title 46 of the Pohnpei State Code - Personal General Provisions.
This Chapter sets out general provisions relative to any agreement, regardless of its form, that is intended to give rights in personal property, including houses on land not owned individually or entirely by the party or parties purporting to give an interest in the house, as security for the performance of any obligation.
Chapter 2 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code -Lease and Use Agreements.
This Chapter concerns use and lease of public land. The Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees may, subject to provisions of this Chapter, authorize use and lease agreements in respect of public lands. Land may be leased to foreign companies but only for the time they are doing business in Pohnpei. Rights to minerals and exhaustible resources and other uses defined by the Board to be of public interest. The Chapter also places restrictions on subleases of residential leases issued by the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees.
Chapter 3 of Title 43 of the Pohnpei State Code - Relocation Assistance.
This Chapter establishes rules for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by the Pohnpei Government and local land acquisition programs or by programmes that require relocation. If an agency acquires real property for public use, it shall make fair and reasonable relocation payments to displaced persons and businesses in accordance with this Chapter. An Agency shall also set up a relocation assistance advisory programme.