This Law sets the basis for the spatial planning and urban policy defining and integrating the actions undertaken at all levels by the Public Administration with the aim of ensuring an adequate organization and use of territory. The main objective is to achieve economic, social and cultural sustainable development of the Country.

Ce décret charge le Ministère de l'économie et des finances de procéder au relevé systématique de toutes les terres cultivables disponibles du domaine privé de l'Etat et d'en faire dresser le cadastre afin de les lotir et de les distribuer aux familles paysannes nécessiteuses qui en produiront la demande. Cette distribution sera assortie de l'obligation pour ces familles de mettre personnellemnt en culture, dans l'année même, au moins 2/3 des terres dont elles sont bénéficiaires. Les bénéficiaires sont considérés comme des usufruitiers de l'Etat pour une période de neuf ans renouvelable.

This Ministerial Decree sets forth the procedure for carrying out tenders for land lease contracts for construction following a local decision authorizing the expropriation and allotment of land. Any legal person, individual entrepreneur or foreign legal person shall be authorized to participate in the tender. Damages resulting from the expropriation of land shall be compensated; amounts shall be based on: (a) the value of removed buildings and constructions; (b) removal cost; (c) losses due to the restriction of landowners’ and tenants’ rights; and (d) lost profits.

This Resolution authorizes the request for conversion of provisional authorization into definitive Right of Land Use and Exploitation (DUAT) for the silvo-forestry activities on behalf of the Company Niassa Forests Ltd, concerning an area of 34,227.15 hectares, located in the administrative post of Chimbonila, District of Lichinga, Niassa Province, documented in the cadastral case No. 11764/1250, as the map attached to this Resolution.

The President decrees that the plots of land and the property connected with them must be considered real estate. The real estate contracts are regulated by Civil Code in accordance with Land, Forestry, Environmental, other specific Legislative Acts and this Decree. Physical And juridical persons, that own plots of land, have the right to sell, to bequeath, to give as a gift, to mortgage, to lease, to exchange and to render them as a share to the-joint stock companies. Each landowner is provided with land certificate that must be registered into land cadastre.

The present Act- consisting of 49 sections - makes provisions with respect to land tenure rights, conveyance of lands, easements, transfer of land, leases, mortgages, and various other matters relative to the registration of titles, use of land rights, transfer of land, etc.

This Instruction is issued on the basis of the Land Charges Act. Use of land shall carry a charge, with the following forms of payment: land tax, rent, normative price of land. The owners, holders and users of land, except leaseholders (tenants), shall be liable to an annual land tax.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities for designating areas of protection of cultural heritage objects, including land-use planning, mapping of boundaries, and requirements for land management within the boundaries of such areas. The purpose of designating protection areas for objects of cultural heritage shall be to conserve the natural landscape and to prevent negative impacts upon the objects of cultural heritage located in their natural environment.

This Act amends the National Land Code Act, 1965.Amendments include: insertion of new definitions in section 5; minor word changes and minor changes in the provisions in sections 5b, 14, 62, 80, 81, 92d, 124, 136, 140, 141, 141a, 142, 147, 204g, 254, 264a, 375, 399, 412, 426, 429a and 429b; insertion of a new Part One (C) on modifications to facilitate the implementation of the electronic land administration system; insertion of a new section 143a on powers of the State Authority in relation to applications for the partition of land subject to the agriculture category; and minor changes to

Article 12 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Regional executive bodies shall be responsible for decision-making related to land reservation for protected areas, with subsequent expropriation thereof and use restrictions imposed on economic activities”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 3361-OZ “On protected areas”. (2015-01-19)

This Regulation specifies the authorities responsible for granting land title and specified land registration activities.The Heads of Land Affairs Office and the Heads of Regional Offices of the National Land Affairs Agency shall be the authorities responsible for granting proprietary rights, rights to use land for erecting buildings, and rights for exploiting land. The Head of Survey, Measuring and Mapping Section shall sign measuring documents while the Head of Land Affairs Office shall sign land book, land certificate and land registration certificates in the registration of land.

The Mayor orders to introduce the following amendments and addenda: 1) To give a new wording to paragraph 1.2 of the original document that reads as follows: "Physical persons that have been allotted the plots of land on condit ions of life-long hereditary property are receive them free-of-charge irrespecti vely of size ceiling of the plots of land." and 2) To repeal paragraph 3 of the original document.