Urban Planning and Land Disposal Act of 1994.

This Act consisting of 64 articles aims at laying out the procedures and institutional responsibilities for urban planning, including the delimitation of town and village boundaries. It establishes that Government land means every land registered in the name of the Government of the Sudan, or any other land not registered in the name of any person, in any of the states of the Sudan. Article 5 estabishes a National Council which shall be subject to the supervision of the Prime Minister, constituted by the Minister of the Urban Planning, and representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, and the Supreme Council for Decentralized Governance. The Council has functions and powers regarding urban planning for (i) setting out the national strategies; (ii) coordination between the different concerned bodies; (iii) studies and research, in particular on the use of land for residential, transport, municipal services, and rural reasons; (iv) ratifications of the change of use. While the Ministry of Urban Plannig has the following powers (i) lay down, upon approval of the state Council of Ministers, the housing plans projects, in accordance with the national urban plans; (ii) demarcate the boundaries of any town or village and modify such boundaries from time to time; and (iii) recommend change of the use of public spaces and squares to any purpose, whenever necessary. Article 10 establishes the formation of governorate Committee, assisted by local comitees, for the development of spatial planning at the local level, in harmony with national plans, in particular cities and villages. Article 13 states that the ownership of land may be acquisitioned for public interest under the Land Acquisition Act, 1930.
Rules related to registration and permission for reconstruction and construction are provided at art.17, while art.18 lists the related sanctions. Article 27 provides for the establishment of a Re-planning Committee when the Minister proposes and publishes in the Official Gazette the time to re-plan a city or just an area of it that modifies the general map of a place. Articles 54-58 concern the agricultural land. The classification of agricultural land depends on the irrigation methods used on that land.
The Act deals also with expropriation of land for public interest, including settlement, in case a land remains under the possession of owners as unconstructed land; compensation modalities for expropriated land (25 percent rule of compensation in kind); disposal of government land through leases; and procedures for acquiring land leases. Under Article 54 is established in every state a Committee for the agricultural schemes, under the supervion of the Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Animal Wealth. The change the class of any agricultural land to residential land is between the competencies of the Council of Ministers.
As for land ownership by foreigners, art.59 states that no alien person shall acquire any plot of land in the Sudan by any of the ways of ownership, unless he obtained the consent of the Council of Ministers.