This Act defines the right and procedures to sue the Crown and liability of the Crown and related persons in tort. Proceedings may concern by or against the Registrar of Titles under the Land and Titles Act or proceedings against the Crown for the recovery of land. The Act also concerns the execution of judgements. Some provisions of the Act concern civil proceedings against the Crown for the infringement of industrial property.

Amended by: Crown Proceedings (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 3 of 2003). (2003-08-19)

This Law regulates the issues of expropriation regarded as transfer of property and the right of ownership from private ownership to public ownership, or concession of ownership rights to municipal unit or to the state for the purpose of execution of public works after equitable compensation. Objects of expropriation shall be: (a) immovable property such as plots of land, subsoil, waterbodies and forests; (b) right of ownership to flora and fauna.

This La establishes that objects of concession can be land and other natural resources, exploration, prospecting, extraction and management thereof. All categories of land except for protected areas and forest fund can be allotted in concession. Concession shall be regulated by concession contract. The Act consists of six Sections divided into 27 articles: (1) general provisions; (2) provision of concession; (3) concession contract and compensation; (4) rights and duties of the parties; (5) guarantees and liability; and (6) conclusive provisions.

The scope of this Law shall be to introduce crop rotation on agricultural land, including combined, intermediate and recurrent sowing for the purpose of raising production of agricultural commodities. Expropriation of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes shall be authorized in exceptional cases by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers with full compensation to landowners and land tenants.

The purpose of this Law shall be to regulate relations in the sphere of setting up and functioning of condominiums as voluntary associations of citizens multi-family dwelling located of the plot of land pertaining to common property. State support of condominiums shall be exercised in the form of allotment of the plots of land in open-ended use. Construction on the plots of land pertaining to condominiums shall be carried out in accordance with legislation on land use planning.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities for calculating and collecting compensation for the transfer of forested areas to a category of land not related to forest management. The amount of payment shall be established in accordance with the basic rate set for a given category of forest, based on the composition and productivity of forest. In the process of calculation, the period of time of the transfer shall also be taken into consideration. Payments for the transfer of forested areas to establish protected areas shall be prohibited.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities for the compensation of damages caused to landowners, tenants and lessees resulting from expropriation by temporary occupation of land that results in use restrictions or deterioration of soil quality. Calculation of damages caused to landowners by expropriation of land for state municipal needs shall include the redemption price, which amount shall be regulated by Civil Code.

The present Law lays down provisions relating to the reorganization of field and forestry land. The Law contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms employed therein, such as for example, “field”, “forest”, “land owner”, “beneficiary”, “private path”, “right of entry”.

The present Law is applicable to expropriation of general property proceedings and related compensation payments in so far as the federal legislation is not applicable.

These Regulations amend the Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments) (Wales) Regulations 2006 so as to apply the modifications those Regulations make to Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to all radioactivity including circumstances where civil liability for damage to the land is regulated, for the purposes of the Paris Convention on third party liability in the field of nuclear energy, by the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 or foreign law.

This Act defines the liability of an occupier of premises for injury to persons or damage caused to goods and resulting from actions or omissions of the occupier in respect of the occupied property. The Act also defines the liability of a landlord under the obligation of maintenance or repair of the occupied property. Where an occupier of premises is bound by contract to permit third persons to enter or use the premises, the duty of care which is owed to them by the occupier cannot be restricted or excluded by that contract.

This Act concerns compensation for fruit-bearing trees destroyed or damaged due to work on public projects. No claim for compensation shall be paid unless the destroyed tree is certified in the manner as prescribed by this Act. Claims shall be presented to the Division of Land Management in the Department of Resources and Development in the manner as prescribed by this Act. Every public project funded by the State Legislature which involves the destruction of trees to which this Act applies shall reserve 3 percent of the total appropriation for tree compensation.