This Act makes provision for matters of partition in the relation with the development of land.It defines sectional ownership of immovable property and provides rules relative to common ownership. Development schemes shall be approved by the Director of Surveys and Mapping. The Act further provides for, among other things, formation of associations that shall govern a development scheme and common property, registration of rights and exclusive use of common properties and servitudes.

These Regulations make amendments to the Land Registration Rules 1972 to 2007 in relation with the application in electronic form for cancellation of a registered charge and relating production of a certificate of charge.

Amends: Land Registration Rules, 1972. (1972-10-02)

This Regional Law validates the list of grounds for refusal of validation of land use planning schemes: (a) use of different systems of coordinate than the regional ones used for state cadastre of immovable property; (b) imprecise and inaccurate coordinates related to the location of land plots; (c) used of wrong mapping methods; (d) absence in the state information systems of data and information permitting to verify submitted coordinates; and (e) absence in the state cadastre of data and information on coordinates of land plot.

This Act concerns the registration and practice of land surveyors. It consists of 34 sections and 3 Schedules.

This Decree establishes the modalities of making amendments to the boundaries of plots of land, tracing new boundaries and insertion of updated data into land cadastre information system. Annex 1 contains the form of notification on change of the boundaries of land plots.

These Rules of the Head of State, made under section 92(1) of the Land Titles Registration Act 2008, provide for the registration of title or other interests in land and specifically for the service of a Notice by the Registrar under section 5(1)(h) of the Act and attestation of execution of any instrument requiring attestation, which is executed in Samoa. Nothing in these regulations affects ownership of customary land held within the meaning of Article 101(2) of the Constitution or alienates customary land within the meaning of Article 102 of the Constitution.

Le présent arrêté fixe les détails des attributions des sections de la Direction Nationale des Domaines et du Cadastre, notamment la division de la législation et du contentieux; la division des domaines et de la curatelle; la division du cadastre et de la propriété foncière; et la division des études et des recettes.

The Premier decrees that Federal Agency of Cadastre of Immovables is federal executive body authorized to carry out functions regarding rendering state services, management of state property and law enforcement functions in the sphere of land survey, state cadastre valuation of land and state monitoring of land. The Federal Agency of Cadastre of Immovables is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

This Act amends the Native Lands Act (Cap 22) in relation with proceedings in any dispute concerning the possession and demarcation and utilization of native lands.Subject to sections 31(1) and 33 of the principal Act, the court shall hear and adjudicate in accordance with provisions of the Lands Code or, where the Code is not applicable, local customary law and the Cadastral Survey Maps (if not proved incorrect), all cases concerning land, land boundaries and transfers of titles to native land register in the registers of native land and any disputes concerning the possession and utilizati

These Rules amend the Rules of the Superior Courts in relation with the resolution of disputes mentioned in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 and registration of lis pendens and other (relief) proceedings for purposes of the Act. Special summons for relief may be taken out by a mortgagee or mortgagor according to these Rules.

Implements: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 (No. 27 of 2009). (2009-07-21)

Item 3 regarding certification of land ownership shall be supplemented with the following phrase: “Shall be certified by a state land registration certificate.”

Amends: Joint Decree No. 303/9 of the Council of Ministers and of the National Bank validating the Regulation on transfer of land plots in private ownership in mortgage for land based credit. (2000-03-07)

El presente Decreto aprueba el Reglamento de la Ley que reconoce los derechos posesorios y regula la titulación de predios en las zonas costeras y el territorio insular, que tiene como objetivo establecer el conjunto de normas y procedimientos con el propósito de cumplir las acciones de reconocimiento de derechos posesorios y la titulación de predios ubicados dentro de los bienes patrimoniales de la nación, tierras baldías nacionales, zona costera y territorio insular.