From the records or judgment, or order or decision of various specified courts, a Commission appointed under section 3 shall compile a replacement Register of native lands recording therein all titles to native lands, pits, ponds, fish traps and sea walls in South Tarawa.

This Act amends the Native Lands Ordinance so as to allow a private bank to take on security on private native lands for securing loans made to investors. Disposal of land shall be subject to section 5 of the Ordinance.

Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)

The Proviso to Section 5 of the Native Lands (Amendment) Ordinance 1977 is hereby repealed.

This Act amends the Native Lands Ordinance in section 4 so as to give persons who have lost their lands as a result of a fraud the opportunity to challenge title acquired under subsections (1) or (2) of section 4 and and to prove fraud in a Lands Court.

Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)

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)

This Act amends the Foreshore and Land Reclamation Ordinance, Cap 35 in section 2 by adding definitions and in section 3 with respect to compensation by licence holders to landowners.This amendment is introduced so as to strengthen the recognition of customary rights over the foreshore of lands.

The ownership of the foreshore and sea-bed vests in the Crown, subject to the public rights of: (a) navigation and fishing, and (b) of passing over the foreshore, and to any private rights that may exist in or over the foreshore or the sea-bed. The Minister may by notice, after consultation with landowners, designate a foreshore of an island or islet or any part thereof.

This Act provides for procedures for the removal of squatters from land. Any person who claims possession of land which he or she alleges is occupied by a person who entered into or remained in occupation without his or her licence or consent, or that of any predecessor in title, may make application to the Court to recover possession of the land.

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.

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 class