The purpose of this Act is to protect national coasts to avoid flooding and degradation of land from the sea, fiords and other territorial sea areas. Coastal protection methods take into consideration the following: economic consideration, coastal protection measures of technical and environmental quality, coastal landscape conservation and restoration, recreational use of the coast, ensure the maintenance of existing access to the coast, and other issues of significant importance for coastal protection.

This Act provides for the prevention of soil degradation and damage to soil functions, protection of soil functions, and for the restoration of damaged soil functions.The Minister of Environment and Water, the Minister of Agriculture and Food, the Minister of Health, and the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works shall be responsible for implementing the State policy for soil protection, sustainable use and restoration at a national level.

La presente Ley Foral tiene por objeto la regulación de la actividad de ordenación del territorio, de la actividad urbanística y el régimen de utilización del suelo y de los instrumentos de intervención en el mercado del suelo en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra.

This Law, consisting of 5 chapters, divided in 71 articles, regulates the general principles on land, territorial and urban planning. In particular, the Law rules on: land and territorial planning, land classification, and registration procedures. Moreover, the Law indicates the competent authorities and their related functions. The Law is divided as follows: General provisions (Chap I); Territorial planning structural tools (Chap II); Composition of territorial competent authorities (Chap III); Territorial plan regime (Chap IV); Final provisions (Chap V).

This Act provides for the registration of title in land in the Bermudas. It establishes the Land Title Registry Office and defines the general powers of registrar. This Act does not affect the law of property in Bermuda as it applies to estates, interests or dealings in land that are not registered or required to be registered under this Act. The registrar shall establish and maintain the land title register and the cautions register. The cautions register shall include an individual register for each caution against the first registration of title to an unregistered estate.

This Regional Law regulates composition, the modalities of elaboration and preparation of land use planning schemes that must include projected extension and location of protected areas and boundaries and changes of the boundaries of agricultural land.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 764-OZ amending Regional Law No. 773-OZ “On land use planning”. (2015-07-29)

This Act provides principally for the control on the development of land and the planning of development in the Cayman Islands. For this and other purposes, it establishes the Central Planning Authority and the Development Control Board. The Act also concerns acquisition and disposal of land for planning purposes. The Board or the Authority, as the case may be, shall assess and grant permission for proposed development.

The present Act provides for the implementation of an agreement respecting Indian lands in Ontario. The text consists of 7 sections and 1 Schedule containing the Agreement between Indians and the government of Ontario relating to land or natural resources.

Implemented by: Specific Agreement Confirmation Regulations (SOR 92-677). (1992-11-23)

This Regional Law regulates the issues of land-use planning of municipal units, the modalities of elaboration and composition of the required documentation. Municipal land-use planning scheme shall include: (a) general map; (b) maps (schemes) of functional areas; (c) mapping of the boundaries of territory and landmarks; (d) scheme of restricted use land areas; and (e) scheme of infrastructure.

The present Act makes provisions, inter alia, with respect to land tenure rights, conveyance of lands, easements, transfer of land, leases, mortgages, and various other matters relative to the registration of titles, use of land rights, transfer of land,etc.

The present Act governs the valuation of land in general and land covered by water in Nova Scotia. The Act lays down provisions relating, inter alia, to property liable to taxation and propert exempt from taxation, appointment of assessors, powers and duties of assessors, assessment roll. The text consists of 182 sections and 1 Schedule.

Implemented by: Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Assessment Regulations (N.S. Reg. 103/2002). (2002-08-01)

The object and purpose of the present Act is to provide for the most effective utilization of Crown lands by: a) the application of proven forest management techniques to enhance productivity on Crown lands and to provide for an increasing harvest of better quality forest products; b) requiring that leasing and licensing arrangements on Crown lands are providing for equitable stumpage rates, adequate investments in forest improvements and improved market access for privately produced wood; c) the integration of wildlife and outdoor recreation considerations in the forest management planning