The present Regulation is made under the Land Title Act. In particular, the Regulation lays down provisions relating to the adoption on behalf of indigenous people of the Torrens System, a land registration system in which the government is the keeper of all land and title records and a land title serves as a certificate of full, indefeasible, and valid ownership. The text consists of 1 section and 3 Schedules.

Implements: Land Title Act ([RSBC 1996] Chapter 250). (2016-03-10)

"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.

Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1

Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis

The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.

These Regulations amend the Lands and Deeds Registry Regulations in the First Schedule with respect to fees for categories of deeds such as assignments, transfers or similar documents, and mortgages, debentures, (agricultural or further) charges, guarantees, covenants, floating charges and similar documents.

Amends: Lands and Deeds Registry Regulations. (2006)

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of conservation, management , promotion and state protection of the objects of cultural heritage and is aimed at ensuring constitutional right of citizens related to access to cultural heritage. Objects of cultural heritage shall be considered immovable property and shall include natural landscapes, recreational urban forests and parks. Land within the boundaries of territories of cultural heritage recorded in the public register of the objects of cultural heritage shall be considered land of historical and cultural heritage.

This Regional Law establishes legal status of slide areas, establishes boundaries of land areas where slide processes could originate. Slide processes shall be intended movement of rockslide under the impact of gravitation forces. A special conservation, maintenance and land-use planning regime shall be applicable to each slide area. Validated boundaries of slide areas shall be recorded in state land cadastre.

The present Regulation is made under section 48 of the Land Act dealing with Crown grants. The text consists of 2 sections as follows: Covenant re land disposition (1); Registration of title and covenant (2).

Implements: Land Act ([RSBC 1996] Chapter 245). (2016-09-01)

The present Act lays down provisions relating to possibilities on behalf of land owners to enter an agreement with the competent land authorities of British Columbia to obtain postponement of the payment of land tax. Section 2 establishes that the Minister may make an agreement with an owner who qualifies under this Act permitting the owner to defer paying all or part of the tax payable on the eligible property during the term of the agreement.

This Regional Law establishes case of state cadastre valuation of land by decision of local government in case of approval thereof by decision of the Regional Government. Application for cadastre valuation shall contain specification of land category, draft terms of reference for cadastre valuation and substantiation of the request for cadastre valuation.

The scope of this Regional law shall be to ensure the right of citizens with three and more children for acquisition free of charge in ownership of the plots of land pertaining to state or municipal property.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning protection of land under reindeer pastures for the following purposes: (a) prevention of land degradation, pollution, littering, disturbance of soil and vegetation cover and other negative impact; (b) land rehabilitation; (c) setting up mechanism of land registration and assessment of the state of land; and (d) application of ecological norms for optimal land tenure. Land protection arrangements related to reindeer pastures shall include prevention of negative impact and prohibition of unauthorized movement of track-type vehicles.

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of calculation of land taxes and evaluation of land plots pertaining to public ownership or with undelimited ownership in case of sale thereof to owners of edifices, constructions located on the aforesaid land plots. In case of sale the aforesaid plots of land to commercial organizations, individual entrepreneurs, legal persons and citizens the amount of repayment shall be calculated as two and a half percent of cadastre value at the moment of purchase thereof.