Land settlement and registration Law 1925

This Act consisting of 101 articles aims at providing rules to determine rights on land and other rights attached to it and ensure land registration. It mainly deals with (i) urban settlement and resettlement; (ii) surveying of plots and demarcation; (iii) land (lease) registration; (iv) transfers of leasehold land; (v) issuance of land certificates (including provisions for the destruction and loss of documentation); and (vi) fraud and erroneous registration. The LRRA also consolidates government ownership over land by establishing that waste, forest, and unoccupied land is presumed to be state land (art.16.c). The Act establishes that title to land may be transferred by a document, which must be in writing, set forth in Arabic (but the record may be written in English if requested) and shall be in the prescribed form, signed by all parties thereto, and witnessed by at least one person. The parties must normally use a printed form for a deed issued by the government.