Qarase govt did not follow Native Land Trust Act - AG
Qarase govt did not follow Native Land Trust Act - AG
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fijivillage.com
09/04/2013
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum maintained that the Qarase led cabinet did not follow the Native Land Trust Act when it approved the transfer exchange of 68.7 hectares of itaukei land to freehold land for the Momi Bay Resort development.
Sayed-Khaiyum said the transfer should not have been done and he also points out a High Court ruling by Justice John Byrne where the concerns of the Momi itaukei landowners were noted.
He said former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase should stop criticizing the current government’s legal team and look at the facts in the Momi land transfer case.
Qarase is calling on the government to take an independent legal opinion on his cabinet’s decision to transfer the itaukei land to freehold land for the Momi Bay Resort development.
Qarase said according to his understanding, they were allowed to do that in July 2006.
Section 5 (1) of the Native Land Trust Act states that Native land shall not be alienated whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange except to the Crown.
Meanwhile, Sayed-Khaiyum said they are now assessing other cases where itaukei land has been transferred to freehold land.
He also said Qarase’s comments that the SVT government had done this for other lots of itaukei land does not make things right.
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