This Act concerns the judicature in Malawi, constitutes the High Court, provides for the establishment of subordinate courts and provides with respect to jurisdiction and proceedings of the High Court and subordinate courts. Certain provisions concern jurisdiction or procedures regarding land matters including charging or mortgaging of land and land registration. The Chief Justice may establish District Registries and appoint Deputy District Registrars for each District. Courts of Magistrates of various grades are established throughout Malawi.

This Act provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Valuations and the valuation of agricultural and other land. The Commissioner shall make a valuation of the: (a) site value and improved value; or (b) capital value and annual rental value, of every parcel of land or any part thereof. Fresh valuation in respect of land shall commence as near as may be to five years from the date of the last valuation of the land as recorded in the Valuation Roll.

Article 4 shall be amended to add the following wording: “1.1) provide for survey and cadastre registration of land parcels expropriated by court decision and public sale thereof in accordance with the modalities established by civil legislation”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 31-OZ “On turnover of agricultural land”. (2014-04-01)

The present Law enforces the Federal Spatial Information Act of 5 October 2010. In particular, the present Law regulates the: a) enforcement of the Federal Spatial Information Act of 5 October 2007; b) collection and use of spatial information of the Canton and municipalities; c) establishment and running of the digital cadastre. The text consists of 31 articles divided into 7 Parts as follows: General provisions (1); Principles (2); Official survey (3); Digital underground cadastre (4); Transversal spatial information system (5); Organization (6); Penalties and final provisions (7).

This Act amends the Native Lands Ordinance in section 4 so as to give persons who have lost their lands as a result of a fraud the opportunity to challenge title acquired under subsections (1) or (2) of section 4 and and to prove fraud in a Lands Court.

Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)

The President, with a view of improvement of regulation of land relations and carrying out state control over land management and protection, decrees to set up land survey services within local executive bodies entrusted with the following functions: (a) state control over land management and protection, execution and quality control of land survey and land cadastre work; (b) expropriation and allotment of the plots of land; (c) enforcement of land legislation; (d) submittal to tax inspection of data related to land ownership by natural and legal persons; and (e) exposure of abandoned land.

This Act provides for the establishment of Parish Councils for each Parish and defines their functions and powers. Parish records on the registration of land shall be transferred to the Registrar General.

The purpose of the present Law is to lay down rules aimed at the establishment of the infrastructure for spatial information in Burgenland with a view to environmental policies and activities which may have an impact on the environment. For the purpose of the present Law “Iinfrastructure for spatial information” means metadata, spatial data sets and spatial data services; network services and technologies; agreements on sharing, access and use.

Il est créé un établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial, doté de la personnalité morale et de l’autonomie financière dénommé agence foncière pour l’aménagement des terrains, placée sous la tutelle du ministère en charge des affaires foncières.

Il est créé un établissement public à caractère scientifique et technique, doté de la personnalité morale et jouissant de l’autonomie financière, dénommé bureau d’études et de contrôle des travaux cadastraux. Le bureau d’études et de contrôle des travaux cadastraux est placé sous la tutelle du ministère en charge des affaires foncières.

Il est créé un établissement public à caractère administratif, doté de la personnalité morale et jouissant de l’autonomie financière, dénommé fonds national du cadastre.

This Act grants power to the President to certify the reissue of a grant of lease of State lands which was destroyed or lost. The President may require the lands in respect of which a certificate is applied for to be surveyed and the certificate shall be registered in the office of the Registrar General.