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PacLII stands for the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. It is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law movement, (FALM) a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
USP School of Law is based in Port Vila and has students located across 12 countries of the Pacific who do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.
PacLII collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org which is hosted by AustLII. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The materials consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals, panels, Ombudsmens reports or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. PacLII is now seeking to expand its collections to include law related materials such as subject specific papers and reports. PacLII is also developing a series of subject specific libraries utilising predetermined search technology. An Intellectual Property and a Maritime Law Library have been created and more are planned. A number of Pacific Islands Treaties are also available but direct access to the database has been suspended due to a current lack of capacity.
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Displaying 181 - 185 of 298Agricultural Land (Declaration of Unimproved Capital Values) Order (L.N. No. 99 of 1982).
This Order, made under section 21 of the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act, declares the different classes of agricultural land of an agricultural holding set out in the Schedule to this Order to have the unimproved capital values specified therein. The land classified by this Order includes pastures, dairy land, rice lands, arable land and forest land.
Implements: Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act, Rev. 1985. (1979)
Interpretation Act 1975.
The Act gives interpretations of various terms used in other legislation of Papua New Guinea and provides for definitions, rules and principles applicable to all Acts and Instruments and the interpretation of references in such legislation. References include a reference to "Administration land" or an "Administration lease".The interpretations include: “archipelagic waters”, "custom”, “customary land”, “interest in land” , “internal waters”, “land”, “offshore seas”, “owner” (in relation to land) and “territorial sea”.
Valuation Act 1967.
This Act makes provision for the valuation of property, for the registration of land valuers and for the establishment of a Papua and New Guinea Valuers Registration Board. The Act defines the procedures and criteria of valuation of property including land. There shall be various kinds of valuers, i.e. a valuer of urban land, a valuer of rural land or a valuer competent for both kinds of land. Land valuers shall be registered in accordance with this Act in the Register of Valuers.
Valuation Regulation 1967.
This Regulation implements provisions of the Valuation Act 1967.The Regulation provides forms, prescribes fees and regulates some matters of miscellaneous character such as valuation rolls, secrecy and appeal under section 74 of the Act against a decision of the Valuer General.
Trust Act of 1994.
This Act: (A) provides for the creation of trusts, powers and functions of trusts, the registration of trusts and the appointment of trustees by court, etc.; (B) and contains provisions regarding the validity of a trust: and (C) defines which property may be placed in trust. A trust exists where a person holds or has vested in him or her property of which he or her is not the owner in his own right: (a) for the benefit of any person whether or not yet ascertained or in existence; or (b) for any purpose which is not for the benefit only of the trustee.