This Act completely repeals the Urban Land Act No. 23 of 1993.
Repeals: Urban Lands Act (No. 23 of 1993). (1993-09-06)

This Act amends the Customary Land Tribunal Act in relation with definitions of the Director (now the Director General means the Director General responsible for land tribunal) and the Minister (sections 3(1), 34(2), 38(1)(c) and 40).
Amends: Customary Land Tribunal Act (Cap. 271) (2006)…

This Act applies to physical planning within a Physical Planning Area declared as such by a Municipal Council or Local Government Council. In declaring an area to be a Physical Planning Area, a Council may in its absolute discretion decide that one or more of the types of development specified…

This Act provides for matters relating to the right to occupy, use and enjoy land under a freehold title by indigenous people. Any indigenous citizen who is the proprietor of an unconditional head-lease registered under the Land Leases Act may apply to the Minister for the grant of freehold…

The object of this Act is to provide for a system based on custom to resolve disputes about customary land. This Act provides for the establishment of land tribunals to resolve disputes about customary land and prescribes the procedures to be followed by those land tribunals in resolving such…

This Act regulates the definition, granting, transfer and registration of forestry rights in land, i.e.: (a) an interest in the land pursuant to which a person having the benefit of the interest is entitled to enter the land and do all or any of the following: (i) to establish, maintain, and…

There shall be maintained in Port Vila a Land Records Office in which shall be kept a register to be known as the Land Leases Register. These Regulations provide for matters of the land Records Office such as Hours of public business of the Office, amendments, corrections, erasures, etc. of…

These Rules, for purposes of section 4(1) of the Land Reform Act (concerning referrals to Supreme Court for a decision on the identity of an alienator), provide rules of petition and appearance and subsequent hearings by the Supreme Court.
Implements: Land Reform Act (Cap. 123). (2006)

These Regulations implement various provisions of the land Surveyors Act. They provide, inter alia for regulations affecting all land surveys made under section 18 of the Act, disputes, units of measurement, systems of co-ordinates and projections, presentation of surveys, checking of surveys,…

These Regulations prescribe fees in Schedule 1 and forms in Schedule 2 for purposes of the Land Valuers Registrations Act. Forms include: Application for registration as a land valuer; Notice of removal or variation of limitations on a valuers right to practice; and Certificate of registration.…

This Act grants power to the Minister to classify any site of historical, ethnological or artistic interest which is in the possession of any person or body corporate domiciled in Vanuatu. The Minister shall inform in writing the owner of any site which it is proposed to classify. The owner may…

This Act provides for the acquisition of land or rights in land for public purposes. Expropriation of immovable property for the purposes of public utility shall be effected by order of the Supreme Court, which shall only make an order of expropriation when the procedure laid down by this Act…