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China amends real estate law in favour of homeowners |
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HOME >> NEWS >> China amends real estate law in favour of homeowners |
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 China’s real estate law has been ammended to ensure homeowners are compensated for property taken from them by the government, state media said on Friday, amid rising public demand for protection of land use rights.
Parliament voted on Thursday to add into the law a clause that allows the expropriation of buildings in the public interest while promising compensation to owners.
The new clause also underscores that the legal rights of the owners must be protected and residence conditions of private owners after resettlement must be guaranteed, it said.
Analysts said the amendment was the first time that the compensation of houseowners was mentioned in the real estate law, whereas before it was only mentioned in less authoritative administrative rules.
"Writing (the compensation clause) into the law will ensure local governments and authorities will respect it more," Sun Cunxin, a lawyer at the Beijing Hengsheng Law Firm, said.
China has struggled to control mushrooming illegal land seizures and development, typically caused by the collusion of business interests and local officials.
The country sees regular protests by farmers and other citizens angered by having their land snatched at cut-rate prices or seized outright.
Arable land was at 121,8 million hectares at the end of last year, compared with 122 million in 2005.
Reflecting the saliency of the issue, the Property Law, which guarantees protection for the state-owned, the collective and the private sectors, triggered un-precedented debate before being passed by the legislature in March.
It went through a record 13 years of debate, passed seven readings and had been the subject of criticism and proposals from 47 government departments and 11 500 members of the public. — AFP.
Source: http://www.herald.co.zw/ |
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