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Recognition of Customary land in the Solomon Islands: Status, Issues and Options

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Sullivan, Marjorie
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	There are demands from a range of government and community stakeholders for recording customary land and its ownership in the Solomon Islands. It is apparent that the existing acts and procedures are inadequate for recording or enabling efficient registration of customary land. New legislation may be necessary or amendments to the existing Land and Titles Act could possibly better facilitate registration, and permit 'whole of land' administration under one act. What is important to consider is an appropriate form of recognition and recording. The Tribal Lands Unit within the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey has responsibility for customary land recording, but is inadequately resourced to cope with the current and anticipated demands. Activities in an ongoing Australian project could support the unit in finalising procedures for recording and the formal recognition by government of land boundaries and custodianship, which could in itself have major social and economic benefits. A pilot project underway in the Auluta Basin has begun to demonstrate and define procedures for establishing boundaries of customary land, and confirming ownership claims through formalising processes of recording genealogies. These procedures need to be tested in areas with different traditions of custodianship to refine a functional process. The procedures will be essential steps towards formal registration of customary titles under existing law, should landowners wish to proceed to that. Formal recognition by Government of agreed customary land boundaries and associated traditional owners may be sufficient for economic purposes, without the need to proceed to registration. An appropriate objective now would be to design an agreed form of recording customary land and its custodians that may be held in either a provincial or national register.
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/144052/1/rmap_wp66.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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