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Displaying 15221 - 15225 of 15550Basic guiding manual on initial land and forest allocation in Luang Prabang Province for Leading Committee and Technical Staff.
This Manual aims at providing advises for field work operations as well as principles for the evaluation, monitoring and control of works.
Land Use Contract.
The contract concerns the management and the use of land. It consists of 6 articles, concerning, inter alia: (a) the acknowledgement by the State of the applicant's right to manage and use the land according to the laws and regulations in force on the management and use of land and forest land; (b) the use of the land in accordance with the use targets established in article 2 and the control of the proper use of land by the State; (c) the offences to be inflicted in case of infringement of the provisions stipulated in the contract.
Survey Act, 1990 (Act No. 4 of 1991).
This Act provides in 30 articles divided into 8 Parts for the establishment of a Land Surveyors Board (sect. 3) and for the control and procedures of the surveying of land by surveyors licensed under this Act. The Board is responsible for the licensing of surveyors and to control their functioning (sect. 5). Part III specifies the criteria which persons shall meet in order to be eligible to become a licensed surveyor (sects. 7 and 8). It also provides for the establishment of a register of licensed surveyors (sect. 9).
Physical Planning and Development Control Act, 1990 (Act No. 1 of 1991).
The Act provides in Part II for the establishment of a Planning Board (sect. 3) and Planning Authority for each planning district (sect. 5). There shall be 4 types of draft plans for spatial development of land. These are: National Plans; Divisional Plans; Development Plans and Local Plans (sect. 8). The Board shall prepare a National Plan for the Gambia. The Board shall also draft Division Plans for each Division of the Gambia (sect. 11). The Board shall, within the framework of the plans aforementioned, prepare development plans for the area covered by that plan.
Land Title Registration Act, 1986.
The object of the Act is to provide a system for the registration of title to land and interests in land.