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Law raises seven grounds to expropriate private rural lands
Posted On 09 Jan 2016
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Certain rural lands that are of “private ownership” and are apt “for agricultural production” may be expropriated by the state in seven cases.
This is established in draft Law on Rural Land and Ancestral Territories, approved in the plenary of the Assembly last Thursday with 98 votes.
The ‘grounds’ are contained in Section 103, and range from failing to comply with certain ‘functions’ of the land to defaulting on labor aspects of those who work there.
The seventh ground says that the state may expropriate the property “when there is demographic pressure on the land, technically qualified and after a report of the national Agricultural and Planning authorities.”
