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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 41 - 45 of 69Chapter 8 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code - Marine Areas.
This Chapter confirms, with certain exceptions, law established during the Japanese administration which declared all marine areas below the ordinary high watermark to belong to the government. Certain customary rights to place and maintain fish weirs or traps are re-established. Other exceptions concern customary rights of owners of land abutting the ocean to collect coconuts and other materials and fishing rights on, and in waters over reefs where the general depth of water does not exceed four feet at mean low water.
Chapter 4 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code - Ownership, Registration, And Conveyance.
This Chapter provides for selected matters relating to ownership of immovable property. Subject to certain exceptions, it declares that only citizens of the state of Pohnpei or corporations wholly owned by citizens of the state of Pohnpei may hold title to land in the state of Pohnpei. It refers to a provision of article 12 of the Pohnpei Constitution relative to acquisition of permanent interest in real property.
Chapter 7 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code - Deed of Trust Act of 1987.
This Act makes provision with respect to deeds of trust in respect of land. Its purpose is to provide for a satisfactory method of securing the financing of improvements to real property by the United States of America acting through various agencies.A deed of trust is a conveyance of the freehold or leasehold interest in trust to secure an indebtedness or charge against real property conveyed, with or without a power of sale, vested in the trustee to sell according to the terms as set forth in the instrument.
Chapter 5 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code - Pohnpei Development Leasehold Act of 1996.
This Act provides rules relative to entering into or modification of a development lease, i.e. a commercial lease or combination of interconnected commercial leases that may contain an expanded term not to exceed 55 years. The Act provides also for control of (modification) of lease agreements and related procedures by the Director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. The Act prescribes, among other things, contents and conditions of an agreement and procedures for the notification of entering into or modification of a development lease.
Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code -Public Lands Act of 1987.
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.