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Illegal Land Occupation: The Law and You’re Rights.
The purpose of the document is to make a clear distinction between:
- Unlawful access to property and “squatting”
- A sudden and orchestrated invasion of property by people on the other hand.
- How to handle land invasions
Unlawful occupation
- Unlawful occupation takes place when there is a measure of permanency and where a person has already erected a structure with the intention of living on the land.
- When this happens, the person is not merely a trespasser but an unlawful occupier, as contemplated in the Prevention of Illegal Eviction and the Unlawful Occupation of Land Act of 1998 (PIE).
Legislation relation to land occupation and evictions
- The eviction of persons is regulated by law
- The following legislation regulates different situations
- The Extension of Security of Tenure Act,1997 (Act No. 62 of 1997) ESTA
- The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, 1996 (Act No. 3 of 1996)
- The Trespass Act, 1959 (Act No. 6 of 1959
- Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act, 1998 (Act No. 19 of 1998) PIE
Download the full document here: https://showme.co.za/vaal/files/2015/03/ILLEGAL-LAND-OCCUPATION.pdf
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