This Act stipulates that no person or body of persons recognized in pursuance of the a specified decision of the High Court shall after the date of commencement of this Act assert or exercise any title, right or power of Iroij Laplap with respect to the subject matter thereof which may be asserted or exercised by only such person as shall be entitled thereto according to the rules of customary law.

The Act declares customary law with respect to specified domains in the Ralik Chain, and provides that there shall be four separate domains and titles and regulates representation of the domains in local councils and the national conventions.

This Act declares customary law pursuant to Article X, Section 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in respect of right, title and interest in and to Bikini Atoll in the Ralik Chain. As a result of the circumstances attributed to the long time span of the legacy and influence of foreign domination, the customary law shall, have limited force and effect with respect to specified rights and activities.

This Act concerns control of the transfer or otherwise granting of rights in customary land (as defined by the Constitution). It shall not be lawful to lease or license any customary land for any agricultural or pastoral purpose to any Samoan who is not for the time being holder of a Matai title.

This Act constitutes a Commission to investigate and determine titles to certain lands. Any person desiring to make a claim to the Commission to individual ownership of or property in any land in Western Samoa other than land undoubtedly held by him as individual property for an estate in fee simple created or confirmed by a Court Grant or a Crown Grant, may give notice in writing of his claim to the Secretary (sect. 15). The form of such notice is specified in section 16. The Commission shall investigate and decide on claims in accordance with section 17.

The Ordinance refers to a Bangladesh custom of leasing land, called barga, and to the tenant of that lease, the bargadar, who is an individual tending the land whose property belongs to a different owner. It states that cultivating land belonging to another person and sharing the resulting production is consented only under a barga contract.

This Act adds a new part on land to the Tokelau Act of 1948. Any land in Tokelau which at the commencement of the principal Act was owned in fee simple by any person other than the Crown shall for the purposes of this Part of his Act be deemed to he held in fee simple by grant from the Crown, and accordingly shall be deemed not to be Tokelauan land for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

This Act provides for recognition and protection of titles in land and various other matters relating to land and land administration and adjudication.The Act consists of 100 sections divided into 9 Parts: Interpretation (I); Department Of Land and Titles (II); Customary Land (III); Pulefaamau and Intention to Appoint (IV); Titles (V); Land and Titles Court (VI); Preliminary Hearings (VII) (repealed); Decisions and Orders of the Court (VIII); Appeals (IX); Miscellaneous (X).There is by this section constituted and established a Department of the Government of Western Samoa to be known as th

This Act provides for the compulsory acquisition or acquisition by agreement of neglected land and the subsequent sale of such land to natives. “Neglected land” means land suitable for agricultural use which is not being fully and efficiently utilized for agricultural purposes. The owner of land may be required to show cause why land is not neglected land and the owner of land found to be neglected, may be required to ensure the utilization of such land.

These Regulations concern the procedure on conversion of customary tenure into leasehold tenure. A person: (a) who has a right to the use and occupation of land under customary tenure; or (b) using and occupying land in a customary area with the intention of settling there for a period of not less than five years; may apply for conversion to the Chief of the area where the land is situated in Form I as set out in the Schedule. Refusal of the request shall be communicated to the Commissioner of Lands in Form II.

The Regulation provides for the recognition of traditional land rights acquired by a community of people who derives their living by cultivating or otherwise disposing of that very land and they shall be entitled to those rights as per the application of local traditional law.

This Act regulates the functioning and powers of village assemblies called Village Fono. The Registrar of the Land and Titles Court shall compile and keep up to date a register of Village Fono in which shall be recorded the name of every village in which a Village Fono is functioning. Every Village Fono in the exercise of any power or authority shall exercise the same in accordance with the custom and usage of that village.