The present Regulations are made so as to enhance the management of land use by the equity or non-equity joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises and to encourage foreign investment in the province. The location and limits of the site chosen by a foreign investment enterprise shall be subject to confirmation by local planning authorities. Procedures for the assignment initiate with an application for assignment by the foreign investment entity.

This Law provides for the establishement by the Government of an "Israel Lands Administration" to administer Israel lands. The Director of the Administation is appointed by the Government, whom shall be directly subordinate to the Minister of Agriculture (sect. 2). Under section 3, an "Israel Lands Council" is also appointed by the Government in order to lay down the lands policy. The Administration shall act in accordance with it and the Council shall also supervise the activities of the Administration. Under section 5, the "State Property Law" 1951, is amended.

This Law establishes cases in which transfer of ownership is allowed. Section 2 makes a list of classes of transactions to which the permission to transfer ownership is allowed. The prohibition to transfer ownership, as prescribed in the Basic Law, shall not affect acts designed solely to enable the observance of the commandment concerning the Sabbatical Year. Under section 4 the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Agriculture jointly are charged with the implementation of this Law and may make regulations as to any matter relating to such implementation.

This Joint Regulating Decree establishes that state colleges, scientific, experimental, training, research institutions and centres of agricultural and forest specialisation, branches of the Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of Medical Sciences, of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Academy of Education are exempted from the payment of the royalties for the use of land.

This Order regards Article 26 of the Law "On royalties for the use of land". The new wording of this Article reads as follows: "Managerial boards of the farming, gardening ,housing and breeding cooperative societies must submit calculations of the land taxes to the Treasury's district inspections, on which territory the plots of land are located, and pay the royalties for the use of land to the budget of the local administration before the issuing of landownership certificates to their members.

This Order regards the Law "On royalties for the use of land". Paragraph 1, point 1 acquires a new wording. It reads as follows: "owners of small private enterprises are exempted from payment of the land tax because of the substitution of the land tax, federal, regional and local royalties for the use of land by a unitary production tax for a given period of time. Owners of the small private enterprises, however, have the right to choose the form of the taxation system."

This Order regards Articles 5 and 26 of the Law "On royalties for the use of land". Paragraph 5, point 4 acquires a new wording. It reads as follows: "Ministerial Decree No. 1108 of 1993 regarding specially authorized bodies of wildlife protection and regulation establishes that the Ministry of Agriculture (the Department on protection and rational use of the wildlife species and its territorial branches) and other specially authorized bodies represent specially authorized bodies of wildlife protection and regulation".

The State Treasury validates amendments and additions No. 4 to the Regulation of the State Treasury No. 29 of 1995 regarding the application of the Law "On royalties for the use of land" according to the Annex. This document has been previously approved by the Ministry of Finance and by the State Committee on Land Resources and Land Survey. Regulation 1 is modified as follows: paragraph 5 is supplemented with point 25.

The purpose of the Law is to establish privatisation of the state-owned and municipal property for cash. Privatisation objects may be transferred into private ownership only in compliance with this Law. Shares and other property owned by the state or municipalities may be transferred into the ownership of other persons only under this Law, unless other laws provide otherwise.The State Property Fund is designated as the lead agency for privatisation.

The Act is divided into 4 Parts: Powers and duties of Canada Lands Surveyors (I); Surveys of Canada lands (II); Special surveys of territorial land (III); General (IV).The Minister of Natural resources shall have the administration, direction and control of surveys under this Act (sect. 3).

This Act, consisting of 74 sections divided into seven Parts and completed by six Schedules, makes provision for the tenure, management, and alienation of crown lands. "Crown lands" means land which is vested in the Crown, and which is not contracted to be granted in fee simple; and includes land granted in fee simple which has revested in the Crown by way of purchase or otherwise. Subject to this Act the Minister has power to manage and dispose of all Crown land. Land districts and parishes existing at the commencement of this Act are continued for the purposes of this Act.

A Decree to provide for fees for the use of State land by private parties and land registration. A user of land that is entrusted the state to him for purpose of agricultural and forestry production, breeding of sea products, and producing salt, shall pay land using fees when using the land for other than allowed purposes. Organizations, families, individuals shall pay cadastral fees in the following cases: granting the land use right certificate; certifying the registration of the change on land; extracting the cadastral file.