Also, making the existing land reform act less complex and easier for communities to use.
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Land can act as a hedge against inflation, and thanks to Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, there is plenty of cheap financing to be had.
Once approved by lawmakers, it will replace the colonial-era Land Acquisition Act, 1894, which has been inadequate to meet the needs of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing India.
"When the property was put on the market by Summer Isles Foods, Coigach Community Development Company, under the Land Reform Act duly notified ministers that they wished to proceed and ministers appointed a valuer to carry out a valuation, " it stated.
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The act of clearing land for livestock is one that damages the environments on which people and other life depend.
It will replace much of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979.
While some of their offices are situated there, they were unable to develop much of it due to restrictive regulations in the form of the Urban Land Ceiling ( Regulation) Act.
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If Congress does not warm to Babbitt's wishes, the Interior Secretary hopes President Clinton will use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the land monuments.
In order to stop flood waters overwhelming central London and to save the massive expense of building fresh flood walls and defences, some land could be set aside to act as a safety valve, catching flood waters and storing them until the danger has passed.
Yet the Bank of Japan began to act about six months after land prices began to slide, while the Federal Reserve was debating whether there was a real estate bubble six months after it burst.
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And again, to be clear, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and over half of Americans are already living under its rules.
The Data Protection Act is there to protect people from land-grabs such as this.
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If that claim is on public land, absolutely nothing according to the General Mining Act of 1872.
Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.
In 1935 London's regional planners proposed the Metropolitan Green Belt and the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act encouraged local authorities to protect the land around towns and cities from building.
Congress is due to debate the reauthorisation of two bits of green legislation, the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, which deals with contaminated land.
The council had designated the land under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, which gave priority to nature conservation over public access and recreation.
The last Stateside No. 1 from the United Kingdom was techno act Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land" in July 1997.
But the Public Health Trust Act 1875 already imposed a statutory trust over the land, giving priority to public access and recreation.
"Under the Highways Act 1980 we are unable to purchase any properties or land unless specifically required for a scheme, " he said.
Jonathan Andrews of the Country Land and Business Association said the key to preventing such incidents was to act quickly.
Land acquisition, often a rub in India, was sped under a national act for public projects and in this case even green lobbies gave their blessing for construction.
To these dissenting justices, an act of Congress that is incompatible with the supreme law of the land is not legal and cannot be enforced in a court of law.
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Control of stamp duty on land and property is being devolved from Westminster to Holyrood under the recently passed Scotland Act.
Two judicial reviews will be heard in October over the matter - one against the Welsh government for its decision to repeal the act and the second is against the council giving permission to sell the land.
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Pressed by peers on all sides to act, Lord Henley admitted that while activists could be removed from public land, the land surrounding the cathedral belonged to the Church of England and therefore "it is a matter for the Church to decide, not a matter for government".
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It's been 140 years since the Homestead Act sent waves of settlers across the Great Plains, staking claim to parcels of land 160 acres in size.
The famous Homestead Act of 1862, whereby an American could have free title to 160 acres of land in the West if he lived on and developed it, grew out of the fact that countless Americans were already occupying federal lands in violation of federal law.
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