Law No. 86-844 relating to New Caledonia, 17 July 1986.
Among other things, this Law creates an Agency for Rural Development and Land Management in New Caledonia.  The Agency is authorized to acquire by private sale or pre-emption land suitable for farming, livestock, and forestry in order to manage it in a more valuable way and grant it back to individuals or groups or grant use rights over it.  If the land is granted to a local group, the group has the choice of holding it according to customary law.  The Agency may also give a lifetime indemnity to any agricultural worker over 55 years old  who stops using land situated in certain defined zones, or give persons using land in such zones a grant for relocation if they exchange that land for land outside these zones.
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