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Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Vanuatu was adopted.
Vanuatu is a parliamentary republic.
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Displaying 61 - 65 of 69Native Lands (Amendment) Act 1983.
The Proviso to Section 5 of the Native Lands (Amendment) Ordinance 1977 is hereby repealed. All appeals in land causes and matters pending before the Lands Court Appeal Panel as at the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be and treated as pending in the High Court, and shall be treated and heard as appeals in accordance with the provisions of Part VIII of the Magistrates Courts Ordinance, Chapter 52.
Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)
Environment Act 1999 (Act No. 9 of 1999).
The objects of this Act shall be, among other hings: (a) to provide for and establish integrated systems of development control, environmental impact assessment and pollution control; (b) to prevent, control and monitor pollution; to (c) protect and conserve the natural resources threatened by human activities, particularly those resources of national and ecological significance as may be classified under the categories of terrestrial vegetation, coral, fish and marine life; (d)to control, manage and regulate hazardous substances; and (f) to promote the conservation and sustainable use of b
Land Planning Ordinance.
The Act consists of 34 sections divided into 5 Parts: Preliminary (I); Establishment, Membership and Procedure of Land Planning Boards (II); Land Use Plans (III); Development Control and Appeals (IV); General (V).A Central Land Planning Board is established under section 4. The Central Board may with the approval of the Minister by notice designate any area for the purposes of this Ordinance. There is hereby established for each designated area a local land planning board.
Native Lands (Amendment)(No. 2) Act 1983.
This Act provides that when any land accretes after the date of commencement of the lease or sub-lease, such accreted land shall be, included in the lease or sub-lease. The lessor and lessee in the lease or sub-lease as the case may be, may at any time in writing signed by both of them exclude or modify provisions to this extent.
Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)
State Acquisition of Lands Ordinance.
The Minister may acquire, on behalf of the Republic, any lands required for any public purpose, absolutely or for a term of years as he may think proper, paying such consideration or compensation as may be agreed upon or determined under the provisions of this Ordinance. Specified purposes are declared to be public purposes for the purposes of this Ordinance and of section 8 of the Constitution.