Land Resettlement and Registration Act (LRRA) of 1925.

This Act consisting of 101 articles aims at providing rules to determine rights on land and other rights attached to it and ensure land registration. It mainly deals with (i) urban settlement and resettlement; (ii) surveying of plots and demarcation; (iii) land (lease) registration; (iv) transfers of leasehold land; (v) issuance of land certificates (including provisions for the destruction and loss of documentation); and (vi) fraud and erroneous registration. The LRRA also consolidates government ownership over land by establishing that waste, forest, and unoccupied land is presumed to be state land (art.16.c). The Act establishes that title to land may be transferred by a document, which must be in writing, set forth in Arabic (but the record may be written in English if requested) and shall be in the prescribed form, signed by all parties thereto, and witnessed by at least one person. The parties must normally use a printed form for a deed issued by the government.
The Act provides detailed steps to be followed to effect a settlement and registration of land within a specified area. The steps start as follows (i) announcement of the intention to be published in the Official Gazette; (ii) appointment of a settlement officer and demarcation officers to carry out the demarcation, settlement and registration of the settlement area; (iii) issuance of a notice fixing the period within which any person claiming land or any right or charge upon land within the settlement area is required to present his claim; (iv) revision of the sketch map considering claims; (v) registration of the land in the name of the claimant(s). The land may be registered as (1) agricultural land; (2) rangeland; (3) specify rights in forest products; and (4) specify any other usufruct rights. The compiled land registers are to be maintained by the judiciary subject to the supervision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with a copy of each register maintained in a land registry office established in the province in question.
The head of the judiciary may decide the minimum limits for the registration of individually recorded pieces and the quotas allocated to the pieces (art.31).