This Act establishes the Agricultural Rent Board for purposes of control of rent of small holdings, i.e. parcels of land intended for cultivation or pasturage, with or without buildings thereon, consisting of not less than a quarter of an acre and not more than 25 acres. The Board shall have the power and duty to determine the standard rent of small holdings situated in any controlled area in Montserrat.

The Act stipulates rules for the creation, enforcement and extinction of real burdens, and special rules for community burdens and manager burdens. A “real burden” is an encumbrance on land constituted in favour of the owner of other land in that person's capacity as owner of that other land. Other burdens regulated by this Act include: Conservation burdens, community burdens, management burdens, rural housing burdens, maritime burdens, economic development burdens, and health care burdens.

This Act consists of 4 Parts: Preliminary (I); Sale by Auction (II); Service of Notices (III); General (IV). It also contains 5 Schedules.This Act sets out procedures for the collectionn of landrevenue. The Collector can auction for sale land whose rent has not been paid, after having notified its owner of the procedure.

Implemented by: Land Revenue Collection (Fees) Rules. (1989-07-21)

The Act has been amended as per the deletion and substitution of paragraph 1 and the insertion of a new paragraph 1A; paragraph 2, 3 and 4 underwent minor changes in terms of substitution of sentences and some additions. Any application made or pending and any order or decision of and any right of appeal of a Strata Titles Board prior to 1st May 2004 shall not be affected.

Amends: Land Titles (Strata) Act (Chapter 158). (2013-11-07)

This Chapter authorizes the district administrator of each administrative district to execute leases and other use agreements of public land of a duration of not more than 25 years to Trust Territory citizens or corporations or other business associations wholly owned by citizens of the Trust Territory. Such leases or other use agreements shall be on forms approved by the Attorney General and shall be granted in accordance with the policies established by Law or by Regulations issued by the Land and Claims Administrator and approved by the High Commissioner.

This Act declares that a person occupying rural land who, but for this Act, would be subjected to any legal proceedings for an order for the recovery of possession, shall be a protected occupier of rural land for the period referred to in subsection four, if: (a) that person was occupying the land on the fixed date and is still occupying the land at the date of commencement of this Act; and (b) that person occupied such land in anticipation of being resettled by an acquiring authority on that or any other land for agricultural purposes in terms of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10]; a

La presente Ley de arrendamientos rústicos establece la normativa para aquellos contratos mediante los cuales se ceden temporalmente una o varias fincas, o parte de ellas, para su aprovechamiento agrícola, ganadero o forestal a cambio de un precio o renta.

Enmendado por: Ley Nº 26/2005 - Modifica la Ley Nº 49/2003, de arrendamientos rústicos. (2005-11-30)
Enmienda: Ley Nº 19/1995 - Ley de modernización de las explotaciones agrarias. (1995-07-04)
Revoca: Ley Nº 83/1980 - Ley de arrendamientos rústicos. (1980-12-31)

This Chapter concerns rights over private lands previously held by the Government under “indefinite land use agreements” concluded during administration of the United States of the State of Chuuk but which are currently held to be unjust. The purpose of this Chapter is to authorize the Governor to enter into more equitable lease agreements for the retention of lands required by the Government for public use.

This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both rural and urban. All land in Viet Nam is the property of the State, but individual and corporate users, both domestic and foreign, can obtain from the State usufructuary rights under lease-type contractual arrangements (art. 1). Long-term leases, in particular, of cropland are made for twenty years for annual crops and aquaculture, and for fifty years for perennial crops, both terms being renewable on expiry (art. 20).

In the Articles 10 and 10/1 the wording “annual minimum rent for lease of the plots of land” shall be substituted with the wording “annual rent for lease of land.”

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

Land Code shall be supplemented with Article 6/1 establishing that plots of land and rights thereto shall be subject to compulsory land registration at the territorial cadastre of immovable property irrespectively of classification and purposeful use thereof; with the Article 15/1 specifying that five hectares of agricultural land pertaining to public property shall be allotted to monasteries free of charge; Article 41/1 establishing that the object of lease contract shall be land of any category and purposeful use, and also land share; and Article 70/1 regulating consolidation of agricultu

This Act amends the Land Tenure Act of 1992 with respect to among other things: definitions of "ownership", "Department" and "Director" (sect. 2); administration of public land (sect. 3); measures regarding violation or breach of the terms and conditions of a lease of public land. The Act also adds new sections (6A, 6B and 6C) concerning measures against misuse of land and a new section 42A which protects rights of occupiers of land under agricultural grants granted pursuant to section 41 of the principal Act in respect to, among other things, cultivation.