Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.5

Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.-Sum 4

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, donors and development specialists on the…

This Act makes provision for the payment of compensation for withholding of property by persons acting in collusion with tenants and for the recovery of non-paid rent. The Act also makes provision for the renewal of leases without the surrender of land.

The amendment inserts a new article 35a concerning the representation of absent owners at incorporation meetings and at assembled owners meetings.
Amends: Land (Facilitation of Dealings) Act (Act No. 7 of 1970). (1970-09-22)

The Act provides for the designation of land use of the Cook Islands. The 17 sections are divided into 3 Parts: Zoning Orders (I); Land Use Board (II); Administration (III). The High Commissioner may issue Orders to establish zones of land use. The use of land within the created zone shall be…

The Act facilitates dealings in land by providing for incorporation of owners of native land and powers of assembled owners (preamble). The objects of incorporation include: to occupy and manage the land as a plantation or farm, to use the land for the growing of timber, to engage in coal mining…

The Act makes provisions for leases in respect of short term crops. Section 3 states that 'any person desirous of growing a short term crop shall be deemed to have a valid and enforceable lease of land for that purpose upon the covenants and terms set forth in the Schedule or on such terms…

The text concerns a minor amendment of article 58, subsection (2).
Amends: Land (Facilitation of Dealings) Act (Act No. 7 of 1970). (1970-09-22)

The Regulations provide for the establishment of a Committee of Management with the task to keep a register showing details of the owners of each block of land. The incorporated owners of land shall hold an annual meeting. The Regulations further deal with election of members, procedures of…