Land Allocation for Living Act, B.E. 2511.

This Act aims at regulating the allotment of land for residential purposes.
The Act introduces the concept of settlement, which includes both self-help and cooperative settlements, emphasizing community involvement in land development. The Act outlines the responsibilities of various governmental bodies in the allocation and management of land. The government shall have the power to do allotment of state land so that the people may have a site for housing and carry on occupation in a fixed place of such land by establishing the settlement under this Act. The Director-General shall have the power to permit a settlement member to enter and utilize the land of the settlement. The settlement member shall utilize the land permitted to utilize under Section 8 only for agriculture according to the regulations prescribed by the Director-General upon approval of the Minister; if another business is also contemplated, a permit from the Director-General shall be required (Section 6-9).
The Act further make provisions for: money to be collected from settlement members to help in the capital of the government invested in establishing the settlement, the utilization certificate to be issued to a qualified settlement member, the committee to be responsible for selecting the settlement members, etc.