This Law regulates property relations and classifies the types of ownership in three categories: (a) private; (b) collective; and (c) public. It establishes that the objects of property shall be land, subsoil, water resources, vegetable and animal kingdom. Plots of land and vegetation thereon can pertain to private ownership. Land, subsoil, water, forests and other natural resources shall be public property. Foreign land tenure shall be authorized except for agricultural land and forest land.

Part (4) of the Article 4 shall be supplemented with the wording “for land on which privatized or subject to privatization objects that are not used in the technological processes the established period shall be five years.”

Amends: Law on normative price and procedure of sale and purchase of land (No.1308-XII of 1997). (1998-12-23)

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Legal possessor of land: (a) person to whom land area was allotted for payment or ownership right was reinstated by decision of the competent body in the course of land reform and the aforesaid land area was delimited in-situ; and (b) the person that has received land ownership due to right of succession or on other legitimate grounds”.

Amends: Law “On agriculture”. (2001-12-28)

Article 4 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Land of free port of Riga owned by natural or legal person can be sold, donated, exchanged or transferred in other manner in accordance with the modalities envisaged by Harbour Law”.

Amends: Law of free port of Riga. (2003-05-22)

The Law consists of 7 Chapters composed of 67 articles dealing with the following matters: 1) general provisions (chapt. 1, arts. 1-8); 2) the unified land territory and its basic classification (chapt. 2, arts. 9-16); 3) the authority of the government bodies and local self-governing organizations regarding land issues (chapt. 3, arts. 17 – 23); 4) land management, land register and the unified land territory report (chapt. 4, arts. 24-26); 5) concession of land in ownership and lease (chapt. 5, arts. 27-51); 6) efficient and rational use of land and land protection (chapt. 6, arts.

This Act establishes the National Heritage Fund as a body corporate, defines its functions and provides for its internal organization. The principal object of the Fund shall be to safeguard, manage and promote the national heritage of Mauritius. The Fund shall be administered and managed by the National Heritage Trust Fund Board. The principal functions of the Board shall be to identify sites and to manage national heritage entrusted to it.

This Act concerns: (a) any written agreement or undertaking executed by a farmer whereunder the farmer: (i) purports to give to the holder (defined in section 2) any right, title or interest in or over the whole or part of any crop which has been, is being or is to be grown or produced in Zimbabwe or the proceeds thereof; and (ii) authorizes any person to pay to the holder the whole or part of the proceeds of such crop (“stop-order”); and (b) an unregistered stop-order which has been executed by a farmer who farms within Communal Land or within such other area as may be prescribed and of wh

This Regional Law regulates allotment of agricultural land parcels pertaining to public or municipal property and establishes minimum and maximum dimensions of the aforesaid parcels. Maximum land area of agricultural land parcel owned by a single natural or legal person shall not exceed 20 percent of the total agricultural land area within the boundaries of a given municipal unit.

The Act provides that all deeds, conveyances, wills and instruments in writing whereby any land or interest in or affecting land other than land registered in accordance with the Registered Land Act, may be affected shall subject to compulsory registration in the Deeds Registry Office. The Minister may exempt certain leases from this requirement.

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make Regulations for the purpose of prohibiting, annulling or in any manner restricting the taking or acquisition directly or indirectly of, or the succession to, any interest in controlled land (as defined), provided that they do not operate so as to prohibit, annul or in any manner restrict the ownership by a person of interests in controlled land consisting of not more than 2 parcels containing, in the aggregate, not more than 20 acres.

This Act, consisting of 24 sections divided into four Parts, provides for the registration of unit titles and is to be considered as part of the Land Title Act. It provides for the registration of units plans and defines the duties of the Registrar-General after the registration of a units plan.

Implemented by: Real Property (Unit Titles) Regulations. (1995-09-13)

The Act ratifies and validates the legal proceedings prior to the issuance of this Act.