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State Lands (Amendment) Act 1997

FIJI


STATE LANDS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997


ACT NO. 1 OF 1997


AN ACT
TO AMEND THE STATE LANDS ACT


ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji-


Short title and commencement


1.-(1) This Act may be cited as the State Lands (Amendment) Act, 1997.


(2) This Act shall come into force on the day it is published in the Fiji Republic Gazette.


Section "6" amended


2. Section "6" of the State Lands Act is amended by inserting a new subsection immediately after subsection "(3)" as follows:-


"(4) In addition to the powers conferred by subsections (1) and (3), the Minister may, with the consent of the owner of a private freehold land and after consultation with the Cabinet, wherever he considers such an action to be expedient, exchange portions of Sate land for portions of private freehold land, in which case the State land the subject of the exchange shall be recorded in the name of the owner of the private freehold land."


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Passed by the House of Representatives this twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven.


Passed by the Senate this twenty sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven.


K. K. T. MARA President
[10th March 1997]


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