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Foreshore and Land Reclamation Act (Cap. 46.01).

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Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
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Abstract
This Act vests the ownership of the foreshore and sea-bed in the Crown, subject to the public rights of: (a) navigation and fishing, and (b) of passing over the foreshore, and to any private rights that may exist in or over the foreshore or the sea-bed. The Minister may by notice, after consultation with landowners, designate a foreshore of an island or islet or any part thereof. No person shall remove from a designated foreshore any sand, gravel, reef mud, coral, rock or other like substance without first having obtained from the Chief Lands Officer a licence for that purpose. The Minister may authorize the reclamation of land over and upon the foreshore or the sea-bed irrespective of the ownership of land bordering on or of whether any land borders on such foreshore or sea-bed.
Long title of text
An Act declaratory of the ownership of the foreshore and regulating certain reclamation projects.
Notes
Consolidated version of Ordinance No. 5 of 1969 amended last by Act No. 4 of 2009.
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Laws of Tuvalu Revised Edition 2008.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Implemented by