This Regional Law establishes cases of allotment free of charge in ownership of the plots of land pertaining to state or municipal property.

This Regional Law establishes plenary powers of state bodies in the sphere of state support of gardening, horticulture, subsidiary smallholding and non-commercial associations thereof. The scope of this Regional Law shall be as follows: (a) improvement of the efficiency of land tenure; (b) promotion of gardening, horticulture and subsidiary smallholding; (c) meeting the demand of regional population in agricultural commodities, vegetables and fruits; and (d) creation of favourable conditions for collective gardening, horticulture and smallholding.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning turnover of agricultural land and shares of agricultural land in common property. Minimum land area of consolidated agricultural land plot shall be 0.5 ha. Maximum agricultural land area within the boundaries of a single administrative-territorial unit that can be owned by a single family with close relatives or by a single legal person of which make part a single family with close relatives shall not exceed 10 percent of total agricultural land area.

These Regulations provide, for purposes of implementation of the give effect to Irelands Third Nitrates Action Programme, rules relative to good agricultural practice to protect waters against pollution from agricultural sources and prescribe measures for these purposes, including: periods when land application of fertilizers is prohibited; limits on the land application of fertilizers; storage requirements for livestock manure; and monitoring of the effectiveness of the measures in terms of agricultural practice and impact on water quality.

By virtue of the powers vested by Section 51 of the Agrarian Development Act No. 46 of 2000, I, M. A. S. Weerasinghe, Commissioner General of Agrarain Development determine that the area of the Authority of Agrarian Service Committee 9/4 Ambalanthota in the Ambalanthota Divisional Secretary's Division and Agrarian Service Committee 9/15 Meegahajandura in the Suriyawewa Divisional Secretary's Division in the Electorate Thissamaharama in Hambanthota District published in the Gazette (Extraordinary) No.

Article 1 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Orphaned children and children legally free shall have the right of allotment on condition of ownership free of charge of public land for individual housing construction in rural areas, gardening, horticulture and subsidiary smallholding”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 7/2008-OZ “On some issues of legal regulation of land relations”. (2009-06-04)

These Regulations amend the European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014 so as to give effect to the Commission Implementing Decision on granting a derogation requested by Ireland pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. They also make technical amendments to sections 17 and 26 of the principal Regulations and insert a new Part (7) on implementation of the Commission Decision.

Por el presente Decreto queda aprobado el Programa Especial Concurrente para el Desarrollo Rural Sustentable 2014-2018, de observancia obligatoria para la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación y las entidades paraestatales coordinadas por la misma.

The present Act establishes that a registered owner, a municipality where the land is located, or any other person claiming an interest may apply to the Court of Queen’s Bench for an order to subdivide land. This Act applies also when two or more persons engaged in farming operations have a tenant in common title, or when a single owner actually holds the title for persons jointly engaged in farming operations of that land. The Act consists of 11 sections.

This Regional Law establishes legal, economic and social grounds for constituting and functioning of peasant farms, including family farms. Plots of agricultural land can be allotted (free of charge or for payment) or purchased in ownership by peasant farms and family farms.

This Regional Law establishes maximum and minimum areas of land plots authorized for allotment in ownership to citizens out of stock of land pertaining to state or municipal property for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding and housing construction in rural areas. Maximum areas of land plots shall be authorized for allotment once-only free of charge in ownership to some categories of citizens that have the right to such allotment in accordance with the list of categories of citizens established by federal and regional legislation.

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to increase the role of private subsidiary smallholding of citizens in raising production of agricultural commodities and it establishes the forms of state support of subsidiary smallholding. Subsidiary smallholding shall be considered a form of non-enterpreneurial activity for production and processing of agricultural commodities that shall be exclusive property of citizens conducting subsidiary smallholding.