Procedures Amending the Procedures Conferring the Right to Cultivate Land/Right to Utilize Land for Agricultural and Livestock Breeding Purposes (Notification No 1/98)

PROCEDURES CONFERRING THE RIGHT TO CULTIVATE LAND/RIGHT TO UTILIZE LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK BREEDING PURPOSES (AMENDMENT) (1998) THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR THE CENTRAL COMMITTEEE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CULTURABLE LAND, FALLOW LAND AND WASTE LAND NOTIFICATION NO 1/98 Yangon, Thw Waxing Day of Thadingyut, 1360 ME (28th September 1998) The Central Committee for the Management of Culturable Land, Fallow Land and Waste Land for the Government of the Union of Myanmar, issues the following Amendment of Procedures with the approval of the Government: 1. These Procedures shall be called the Procedures Amending the Procedures Conferring the Right to Cultivate Land/Right to Utilize Land for Agricultural and Livestock Breeding Purposes. 2. In the Procedures Conferring the Right to Cultivate Land/Right to Utilize Land for Agricultural and Livestock Breeding Purpose issued by the Central Committee for the Manament of Culturable Land, Fallow Land and Waste Land under Notification No 1/91 Dated 12th December, 1991. (a) Sub-paragraph (a) (i) of paragraph 3 shall be substituted as follows: (i) in the case of Perennial Plants – 5,000 acres at a time and whenever cultivation is completed of the said 5,000 acres at a time up to a total of 50,000 acres for cultivation of the prescribed perennial plants; (b) Paragraph 4 shall be substituted as follows: 4. The Committee has the right to administer anyof the following matters only with the permission of the Myanmar Investment Commission: (a) in a case where application for permission is made for cultivating an additional 5,000 acres at a time on completion of cultivation on the first 5,000 acres under sub-paragraph (a) (i) of paragraph 3: (b) in a case where application for permission of cultivation is made by a foreigner or by an organization consisting of foreigners in areas determined by the Ministry of Agriculture, in which land development operations are to be carried out. (c) In sub-paragraph (a) of Paragraph 5, the expressions “for organizations consisting of foreigners an application is to be submitted with the approval of the Foreign Investment Committee”, shall be deleted. (d) The following sub-paragraph shall be inserted as sub-paragraphs (f), (g), (h) and (i) after sub paragraph (e) of paragraph 18: (f) the authorized land for agriculture shall be used solely for agriculture and economic enterprises related thereto; (g) natural resources above and below the ground shall not be extracted; (h) if natural resources are found in the authorized land and the Government being desirous of extracting the same on a commercial basis resumes the area required therefrom it shall be surrendered as directed by the Government. (e) Sub-paragraphs (f), (g), (h) and (i) mentioned in above sub-paragraph (d) shall be renumbered and as paragraphs 8, 9, 10 and 11 respectively after paragraph 7 of Annexures (4), (5) and (6); (f) Annexure (1-A) (Application for granting right to extensive cultivation of perennial plan on the culturable land, fallow land and waste land) attached herewith shall be inserted after Annexure (1); (g) Paragraph 10, 11 and 13 of Annexure (1-A) shall be renumbered and substituted as paragraph 9, 10 and 12 respectively of Annexure (1). (Maj-Gen Nyunt Tin) Chairman The Central Committee for the Management of Culturable Land, Fallow Land and Waste Land