Land Development Act, B.E 2543 (2000).

This Act provides for land development. In this Act, “land development” shall mean the sale of land which has been divided into ten or more sub-parcels, regardless of whether such division is made on a single or more plots of land with connecting areas, and for which property or benefit as consideration is derived, and it shall include the arrangement by dividing the land into less than ten subparcels and then further division is made within three years thereafter and as the consequence thereof the sum of the sub-parcels becomes ten or more.
This Act shall not apply to: (1) Land development operated by governmental agency, state body, state enterprise, local governmental agency or other state organization with the authority to operate land development under law; (2) Land development licensed under other laws.
The Central Land Development Board, comprising Permanent Secretary for the Interior, as chairman, Attorney-General, Secretary-General to Consumers Protection Board, etc., shall be established. There shall be a Provincial Land Development Board and the Board shall have the powers and duties to supervise land development within the province. In order to be engaged in land development, a person need to obtain a license given by the Board. The contract to buy and sell the developed land between the land developer and the person who will buy the developed land shall be in the form prescribed by the Central Land Development Board. The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: land transfer registration, offences and penalties, etc.