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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 66 - 69 of 69Foreshore and Land Reclamation Ordinance.
The ownership of the foreshore and sea-bed vests in the Crown, subject to the public rights of: (a) navigation and fishing, and (b) of passing over the foreshore, and to any private rights that may exist in or over the foreshore or the sea-bed. The Minister may by notice, after consultation with landowners, designate a foreshore of an island or islet or any part thereof. No person shall remove from a designated foreshore any sand, gravel, reef mud, coral, rock or other like substance without first having obtained from the Chief Lands Officer a licence for that purpose.
Native Lands (Amendment) Act 1983.
The Proviso to Section 5 of the Native Lands (Amendment) Ordinance 1977 is hereby repealed. All appeals in land causes and matters pending before the Lands Court Appeal Panel as at the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be and treated as pending in the High Court, and shall be treated and heard as appeals in accordance with the provisions of Part VIII of the Magistrates Courts Ordinance, Chapter 52.
Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)
Fiji Land Corporation (Establishment) Order.
This Order provides for the establishment of a corporation to be known as the Fiji Land Corporation for the purpose of purchasing freehold and leasehold agricultural estates and the developing, subdividing, selling or leasing of parts or the whole thereof, being a project planned by the Land Development Authority in the discharge of its functions under the Land Development Act.
Implements: Land Development Act. (1983)
Land Development Act.
This Act provides for the establishment of the Land Development Authority as a body corporate. It shall be the duty of the Authority to promote and assist the investigation, formation and carrying out of projects for the development, improvement and settlement of land. The Authority may establish a reserve fund. The Authority may make rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.