The Law establishes that immovable properties shall be entered in Land Registers and the rights related thereto shall be corroborated therein. Land Registers shall be available to everyone and the entries thereof shall be publicly reliable. Management of Land Registers shall be under the jurisdiction of the Land Register offices of regional courts. Each immovable property shall be entered in the Land Register in such Land Register office in the district of which it is located.

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of allocation of parcels of public land to citizens free of charge for gardening, horticulture and stockbreeding, and establishes minimum and maximum land area of the aforesaid parcels. It establishes that regional resident – natural person that has never had nor has parcel of agricultural land in ownership for subsistence farming, gardening or horticulture, shall be granted the right to receive in ownership a land parcel for each of the aforesaid purposes once-only.

This Regional Law establishes plenary powers of regional state bodies and local government of municipal units in the sphere of turnover of agricultural land. Maximum land area of agricultural land that can be owned by a single natural or legal person shall not exceed 20 percent of total available land area on a given territory at the moment of concession or purchase of such plots of agricultural land. Minimum lease period of agricultural land shall be 11 months.

This Regional Law establishes maximum and minimum land area of the plots of public or municipal land allotted to citizens in ownership for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding, subsidiary smallholding and individual housing construction. Total land area of agricultural land that can be owned or held in tenancy or lease by citizens carrying out subsistence farming and subsidiary smallholding shall not exceed 10 hectares.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning ownership, tenancy and disposal of land parcels and land shares of agricultural land located on the regional territory. State bodies and local government must perform rational land-use planning of agricultural land and protection thereof with a view of: (a) ensuring the right of citizens to favourable environment; (b) ensuring sustainable land tenure; (c) improvement of soil fertility; and (d) ensuring sustainable economic development of the producers of agricultural commodities.

This Law makes provision with respect to registration of title in land and effects of registration and provides for a wide variety of matters regarding specific title in land such as leases, charges, transfers, co-ownership and partition, trusts and transmission on death.The Law establishes a Land Register and requires the Governor to appoint a Land Registrar, the functions and powers of which are defined by this Law. The Land Register shall consist of a register of parcels adjudicated under the Land Adjudication Law and a register of each lease required by the Law to be registered.

This Regional Law shall be applicable to turnover of agricultural land pertaining to public or municipal property. Privatization of agricultural land pertaining to public and municipal property can be performed 49 years after the date of entry into force of this Regional Law. Distant pastures shall be excluded from privatization. Agricultural land parcels can be expropriated from the owners if it remains unused or non-purposefully used for the period of three years.

This Regional Law establishes that total maximum land area of agricultural land that can be allocated to citizens on condition of ownership, lease, tenancy or under any other condition for private subsidiary farming shall be 10 ha.

The present Federal Law regulates relations connected with ownership, land tenure and disposal of the plots of agricultural land, sets use restrictions applicable to transactions with the plots and shares in common property of agricultural land out of which land rights shall originate or cease, determines the terms and conditions of allotment of the plots of agricultural land pertaining to public or municipal property, and also the modalities of expropriation thereof for public and municipal needs.

The purpose of this Act is to prescribe rules for land acquisition by foreigners within the territory of the Republic of Korea. “Foreigner” is defined in article 2. As far as corporations are concerned, substantially at least of the corporation shall be foreign so as to qualify as foreigner. Article 3 outline the principle of reciprocity, i.e.

Land Code defines the basic directions of State regulatory system improvement concerning land relations, development of various organizational and legal forms of land economy, fertility of land, improvement of land use efficiency, protection and improvement of the environment – favourable for human life and health, and the legal framework concerning the protection of the land rights. Ownership, use and disposition of land must not damage the environment, security and defensibility of the State; must not violate rights and legally defined interests of citizens and other entities.

This Act determines the conditions and procedure for privatisation of assets in state ownership and in the ownership of local governments in connection with the termination of the activities of the Estonian Privatisation Agency.