The present Regulation enacts sections 8 and 93.81 of the Land Act. In particular, the Regulation deals, amongst others, with the following matters: definitions, criteria for establishing land use objectives, orders that must be made available for public review and comment, review and comment on urgent orders by affected agreement holders, specifying conflicts with Forest and Range Practices Act objectives, content of order establishing or amending a land use objective, notice of order establishing or amending a land use objective.The text consists of 8 sections.

This Law aims at developing Agricultural Land Reserves as a result of the privatization of state-owned agricultural land, rational land tenure, and supporting market development for land.

This Act makes provision with respect to the management and administration of public lands. The Act establishes a division within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the management and administration of public lands and transfers the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust to this division. The Board of Trustees of the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust is hereby continued and recognized as trustees to all rights, title, and interest to public lands in Pohnpei for the benefit of the people of Pohnpei, subject to the obligations and restrictions of the Pohnpei Constitution and the laws of Pohnpei.

The present Regulation enacts section 133(2) of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act. In particular, the Regulation lays down provisions relating to petroleum development roads, which means a road constructed over Crown lands reserved for the construction and operation of a road, or operation of a road to facilitate exploration for, and the winning, extraction and removal of petroleum and natural gas, and includes any extensions of such a road over land other than Crown land provided for in the application or subsequently authorized by the commission.

This Chapter establish rules for securing public access to areas that are public lands and that are subject to subdivision into smaller parcels, tracts or lots for sale, lease, homestead, exchange or allocated for any other purposes or any public land abutting the sea or tidal areas that is proposed to be sold, leased, homesteaded , exchanged or allocated. The Board of Trustees shall have the power to promulgate Rules and Regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, to implement the provisions of this Chapter. Such Rules and Regulations will have the force and effect of law.

This Chapter authorizes the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to regulate the removal of mined and dredged materials located on Public Trust Lands in areas listed in this Chapter. Dredging and removal of dredged material at any other site is prohibited. The Chapter sets out conditions for the mining of sand in a specified marine area which shall be monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Division of Forestry and Marine Conservation and establishes certain conditions for mining and dredging in general. A permit for such activities shall be obtained from the Board.

This Chapter empowers the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to sell, lease or dedicate for public purpose specified lands held in trust by the Board for specified purposes. The Chapter specifies for each piece of land conditions or restrictions applying to the power of the Board to sell, lease or dedicate to public purposes such land. The Chapter defines “active use” by the Government. Land shall revert to the Board if such active use of the Government ceases.

This Act requires the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to identify and convey specified land to the Government of Pohnpei. The State Government Land Use Plan Master Plan Map,” is hereby adopted as the zoning map for the purposes of this Act. The Governor shall submit to the Land Use Planning and Zoning Commission the Map and plan for integration into the public services element of the Land Use Zoning Master Plan of the state of Pohnpei.

This Chapter concerns use and lease of public land. The Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees may, subject to provisions of this Chapter, authorize use and lease agreements in respect of public lands. Land may be leased to foreign companies but only for the time they are doing business in Pohnpei. Rights to minerals and exhaustible resources and other uses defined by the Board to be of public interest. The Chapter also places restrictions on subleases of residential leases issued by the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees.

This Act concerns the distribution of land held in the public trust. The purpose of this Act is to distribute lands held in trust for the people of Pohnpei to beneficiaries of the trust who have entered upon, developed, and possessed such lands for agricultural purposes pursuant to leasehold or other use agreements issued for that purpose by the government of Japan or the Trust Territory Government. The Act sets out criteria and procedures for transfer of title in land.

This Act aims at conveying title and other interest in land held by the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to residential lessees on eligible properties. Lessees eligible to receive title to a residential property shall apply to the Board for transfer. The Act sets out procedural requirements for the application and transfer. Land subject to transfer may not be alienated for a certain period. The Board shall establish Rules and Regulations for the proper administration of provisions of this Act.

This Act amends the Government Act (Cap. 3) by repealing sections 17(4), 20 and 25.It also provides that all subsidiary legislation made under the Principal Act and in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act, so far as it is consistent with the provisions of the Public Service Act 2002, shall continue in force as if made under that Act.

Amends: Government Act. (1988)