These Regulations are made under section 68 of the Mining Act and make further provision for mining and related matters in Fiji.They provide, inter alia, for: fees, rents and royalties (regs. 4-8), marking outof mining tenements, priority and adjustment of boundaries after survey of contiguous…

These Regulations shall apply to all town planning areas constituted under the Act, excepting those areas in respect of which a scheme has been approved under section 24 of the Act. Subject to the subsequent provisions of these Regulations, development of any class specified in the First and…

These Regulations provide for sanctions and measures against unlawful trespass and occupation of land. The following are declared offences: (a) if a person shall contrary to the order of the Minister or District Officer enter into the occupation of any land the tenure of which is vested in any…

The Act consists of 247 sections divided into 28 Parts: Preliminary (II); Administration (II); Settlement of unregistered documentary titles (III); Systematic settlement (IV); Purchase or lease of customary land by private treaty and compulsory acquisition of land (V); Organization and…

This Chapter provides for the disposal of (real) property by will and execution of wills. It defines certain requirements regarding execution, rights of spouse of the deceased person and legal procedures. A surviving spouse may elect to take dower instead of property devised or bequeathed to…

This Act amends the principal Act in section 3 in the definition of "family" so as to widen its meaning and to include brothers and sisters of the owner and the children of those brothers and sisters.
Amends: State Lands Act 2001 (No. 13 of 2001). (2002-01-14)

Section 4 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by adding "or for the benefit of the native Fijians". Section 19a concerns allotment of extinct mataqali lands. A copy of the Order by the Board under section 19(1) allotting or otherwise dealing with land vested in the Board…

Amendments relative to the allotment of all extinct mataqali land in accordance with the provisions of the Native Land Trust (Amendment) Act. “Native land" now means land which is neither State (formerly Crown) land nor the subject of a State (formerly Crown) grant nor native grant but…

Lands marked out and defined under subsection (1) of section 19 must be: (a) declared by the Minister by Notice in the Gazette to be vacant lands under the control of the Board; and (b) dealt with in all respects as native lands. Income arising from vacant lands vested in the Board under this…

An order by the Board under section l9(1) allotting or otherwise dealing with land vested in the Board under that section must be transmitted to the Native Lands Commission which must register the allotment or dealing in the Register of Native Lands. Until an allotment of or other dealing with…

This Act prescribes that, unless authorised by a permit issued by the Board of Trustees, no person shall by means of excavation or surface operations search for any object of archaeological or palaeontological interest. Such permit shall, so far as is practicable, be in Form A set out in the…

This Act regulates some aspects of the (non) contractual relationship between landlord and tenant such as compensation for use and occupation in case of land held not by written agreement (deed), no obligation of attornment by the lessee under the lease in case of a conveyance of the reversion…