This Regulation, consisting of 16 sections completed by one Schedule, makes provision with respect to the following matters: (a) the fees and deposits payable in respect of applications and other matters under the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989, (b) the forms of application and the manner of lodgement of applications for the purposes of that Act, (c) other minor, consequential or ancillary matters.

The Regulation, consists of 50 sections divided into six Parts and completed by five Schedules, as follows: Preliminary (1); Administration (2); Land Assessment (3); Sale, Lease or Other Disposal of Crown Land (4); Dedication and Reservation of Land (5); Miscellaneous (6).The Regulation is completed by five Schedules: Fees and deposits (1); Substances defined as minerals in relation to land not in a special district (2); Repealed (3); Records to be kept by Reserve Trust (4); Penalty notice offences (5)

This Ministerial Decree validates the forms of landownership certificate (Annex 1), provisional landownership, land tenancy and land lease certificate (Annex 2), land share ownership certificate (Annex 3), lease contract containing description of the plot of land (Annex 4) and registration form of landowners (Annex 5).

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities for organizing and holding auctions for public or municipal land or for the right to conclude contracts of tenancy and lease thereof. Auctions shall be open with respect to participants and may be carried out in the form of tender, while auctions may be closed with respect to the submission and amount of offers. Auctions shall be held as necessary to establish contractual obligations related to land management.

This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both rural and urban. All land in Viet Nam is the property of the State, but individual and corporate users, both domestic and foreign, can obtain from the State usufructuary rights under lease-type contractual arrangements (art. 1). Long-term leases, in particular, of cropland are made for twenty years for annual crops and aquaculture, and for fifty years for perennial crops, both terms being renewable on expiry (art. 20).

This Act makes provision for various matters relating to the activity of exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources in Botswana including licensing, control, surface rights, survey of wells, protection of the environment and compulsory acquisition of land.The Act sets out criteria and conditions for the granting of an exploration or a development licence. The Minister may enter into an agreement with a (potential) licence holder. A registered holder of an exploration licence shall notify the Minister on the discovery of petroleum in an exploration area.

This Act defines the liability of an occupier of premises for injury to persons or damage caused to goods and resulting from actions or omissions of the occupier in respect of the occupied property. The Act also defines the liability of a landlord under the obligation of maintenance or repair of the occupied property. Where an occupier of premises is bound by contract to permit third persons to enter or use the premises, the duty of care which is owed to them by the occupier cannot be restricted or excluded by that contract.

This Act makes provision for the enfranchisement of land held under customary tenure and provides that any enfranchised land shall vest in the person who immediately before the effective date, held the land as a tenant. Rights of landlords shall be extinguished but a landlord shall be entitled to receive compensation from the person in whom the enfranchised land is vested. The Minister may establish Customary Land Tribunals for purposes of this Act. The Act defines functions and powers of such tribunals.

This Act sets out criteria, conditions and procedures for compulsory acquisition of land by the Government and regulates related matters such as compensation, appeal from a magistrate’s award on compulsory purchase and effects of the acquisition on existing leaseholds and land other than the land under compulsory acquisition.The procedures of acquisition foresee, among other things, a notification by the Minister in the Gazette, a preliminary investigation by persons authorized by the Minister, a declaration that land is required for public purposes, the possibility of appeal with the Supre

This Act makes provision for selected matters in relation with property and in particular immovable property.The Act provides rules relative to licensed activities in respect of leases and other effects of legal deeds or proceedings on lease, effects of release from a rentcharge or judgements of parts of hereditaments charged therewith on unreleased parts, executions of deeds, illegal practices with deeds, duties of trustees and executors in respect of existing leases and other matters regarding land under inheritance or intestate.

The Act makes provisions in respect of powers and remedies given to lessors and landlords in case of any tenant deserting the demised premises, and leaving the same uncultivated or unoccupied, so as no sufficient distress can be had to countervail the arrears of rent. These powers and remedies are applicable in the case of tenants holding any lands, tenements, or hereditaments at a rack rent.

This Act makes provision in relation with selected matters concerning real property such as the status of all corporeal tenements and hereditaments, the validity of certain acts such as feoffments, partitions, exchanges, leases and of interests in tenements and hereditaments and the status of a reversion expected on a lease on tenements to be surrendered or merged.