This Act deals with improving the agricultural production by means of interventions on irrigation works or the restoration of the water flow in rivers turned dry and the application of a levy on the profits arising as direct consequence of those improvements.

This Resolution is divided into two Chapters: (a) Formalities, administration and membership; (b) Responsibilities and objectives.The main objective of this Resolution is the consideration and determination of areas and various aspects of the desertification emergency in the country: evaluation…

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…

This Ordinance rules that land that has not been cultivated for at least two years shall be reclaimed by the Collector for a period not longer than one year from the initial declaration of acquisition, who can lease it to anybody for cultivating crops (food crops as per art. 2, clause ii). If…

This Act provides for the tenancy of land that shall be used for purposes other than cultivation; and for the building of residential housing or factories or for erecting shrines and temples and digging tanks. Nevertheless, the tenant or the sub-tenant is entitled to fell trees planted on that…

The Act provides for land allotment to evacuees, land to be used for agricultural production, pasture, house-building: it entitles the evacuee to the right of using the allotted land and, in those cases when allotments were not conceded prior to the issuing of the present Act, it provides for…

The amendments concern the need for authorization from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Agriculture for the conversion of forest and valley land into the following: 1. making farmland, orchard, rangeland, artificial forests, forage land, livestock institutions, aquatic breeding institutions…

The Ordinance provides for the institution of a Union Parishad, an elected local Council, in rural areas and furthermore indicates the functions and tasks of these Parishads.The Ordinance further provides for: the internal organization of the Union; functions of Union Parishads; constitution of…

This Ordinance provides for the establishment of the Chittagong Hills Development Board and defines its internal organization and its functions.The Ordinance further provides for: the establishment of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Fund; powers of entry for inspection purposes;…

This Ordinance provides for the establishment of the Chittagong Development Authority and defines its internal organization and its functions.The Authority shall, in two years time, prepare and submit to the Government a Master Plan for the Municipality stating how the land should be used,…

The Law provides for the repartition and sale of land owned by two or more tenants on the basis of their share of the same land and their rights to it.As far as the decisions of the board are concerned, article 6 establishes that the chairman of the board shall inform the Settlement Officer of…

Chapter one of this Law contains definitions of terms therein employed, such as: forest, forest bushes, desert shrubs, forest cover and regions, range, planted rangeland, logs and saplings. Chapter two sets out rules for exploitation and protection of the above mentioned areas. Forestry…