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The intention of this Decree-Law is to enable, exceptionally, the State or the local government to acquire the ownership of private estates, through expropriation for public interest determined by Article 4 of the Decree-Law, against immediate, complete and absolute compensation. The compensation can be an other estate or money or both of them. The expropriation procedure is duty of the territorially competent commissary of the Republic. Proceedings are ruled in detail.
Amended by: Act No. CXVI of 2001 on the National Land Fund. (2002-07-19)
Amended by: Act No. XLIII of 2000 on waste management. (2000-05-23)
Amended by: Act No. LXVII of 2004 regarding public interest and implementation of the programme aimed to increase the protection against flood in the Tisza River basin, and for land planning and rural development of the surrounding area (re-development of the Vásárhelyi Plan). (2011-03-07)
Repealed by: Act No. CXXIII of 2007 on expropriation. (2013-06-27)