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Government Proceedings Act 1974.

Country/Territory
Samoa
Document type
Legislation
Date
1974
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Consolidated Acts of Samoa 2015.
Long title
An Act to make provision for the civil liabilities and rights of the Government and officers of the Government, and for civil proceedings by and against the Government.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Expropriation Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Liability/compensation Procedural matters
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Oceania, Polynesia, Small Island Developing States, South Pacific
Abstract

The Act concerns claims enforceable by or against the Government and related civil proceedings. Subject to this Act and any other Act, all debts, damages, duties, sums of money, land, or goods, due, payable or belonging to the Government, is to be sued for and recovered by proceedings taken for that purpose in accordance with the provisions of this Act. In any proceedings against the Government for the recovery of land or other property, the Court shall not make an order for the recovery of the land or the delivery of the property, but may instead make an order declaring that a person is entitled as against the Government to the land or property or to the possession thereof. The Act excludes liability of the Government for the compensation in respect of an interest in customary land.

Full text
English
Website
www.paclii.org