Land Law No. 10/2013. Country/Territory China, Macao SAR Document type Legislation Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Land tenure Land-use planning Concession Dispute settlement Policy/planning Property rights Public land Right of use Soil conservation/soil improvement Abandoned land/unoccupied land Access right Agricultural development Cultural heritage Expropriation Inheritance Classification/declassification Sustainable development Geographical area Asia, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on 1 March 2014. Abstract This Land Law, consisting of 14 Chapters, divided into 223 articles, establishes the legal regime for land management, in particular for constitution, exercise, modification, transmission and extinction of the right of land use and exploitation within the State of the Special Administrative Region of Macau, (called RAEM). Land management, in particular land use and exploitation, follows several principles, such as: 1) Sustainability, promoting the coordinated and balanced development at socio-economic, historical, cultural environmental levels, to satisfy present and future generations; 2) Useful and effective land exploitation, guaranteeing an adequate and rational land use, optimizing the soil utilization; 3) Control, under the government who is entitled to make decisions over land concessions or occupied and apply if necessary relevant sanctions, according to this Law; 4) Public information, through transparence of administrative proceedings in order to facilitate the access of populations to information in land concession and occupation processes; 5) Equality in the access to land, through publicity and carry out competitions to offer land concession in equality conditions; 6) Safeguard, based on com base land management policy which obey to cultural heritage and environmental preservation and protection criteria; 7) Respect the urban land use planning; 8) Official information related to legal land situation, through the publication on the Macau Official journal; etc. Full text Portuguese/Chinese Website www.bo.io.gov.mo References - Legislation Amends Decree-Law No. 43/97/M implementing Land expropriation legal regime for public use. Legislation | China, Macao SAR | 1997 Keyword: Land tenure, Expropriation, Land valuation Source: FAO, FAOLEX Implemented by Administrative Regulation No. 6/2019 establishing the procedures relating to the public tender for land award. Legislation | China, Macao SAR | 2018 Keyword: Classification/declassification, Land commission, Land tenure, Land-use planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Monitoring, Dispute settlement, Procedural matters Source: FAO, FAOLEX Chief Executive Decision No. 146/2018 establishing the amount of the annual fee due for licensed land occupation. Legislation | China, Macao SAR | 2018 Keyword: Land tenure, Tax/levy, Public land, Authorization/permit Source: FAO, FAOLEX