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The land administration system has two main functions: the Land Cadastre and the Land Registry. Integration is mainly dealt with from the point of view of technical issues, while the unification is usually dealt with from an organizational and legal aspect. This research aims to analyze the possible paths for the unification of the Land Cadastre and the Land Registry in Cape Verde and its implications for local governance in the country. Questionnaires were prepared and applied to those involved in land administration processes to capture the perception of these actors in the issue of unifying the land registry with the land cadastre. The issue of the existence of various legal diplomas and the several institutions involved in the process of land administration in Cape Verde was considered, as well as the impact of a new approach to the land administration system based on the unification of laws and institutions. This new approach will lead to the simplification of internal and external land administration workflows. The main positive effects of a unified land administration system have to do with the higher quality of the data and with the reduction of the non-harmonization between these data. And, above all, the user does not have to go through different institutions to transact the property, it will reduce not only the transaction time, but also the cost itself, providing more legal guarantee on the property transaction process, with positive effects on the local and urban governance system in Cape Verde.
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INGT—Instituto Nacional de Gestão Territorial (‘National Institute for Territory Management’).
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“Panorama of extralegality in Cape Verde” is a study by Fundación Canaria ILD Europe within the framework of “Extralegal Assessment in West Africa,” financed by the Government of the Canary Islands and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID).
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LOPE—Law on the Political Organization of the State, of July 5, 1975—as well as the Constitution of the Republic, approved at the IX Legislative Session of the First Legislature on September 5, 1980, reserved the transitional validity of all legislation in force in Cape Verde, on the date of national independence “not contrary to the Constitution and other laws of the Republic …,” conferring validity to the essential aspects of this legislation.
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Provision of October 23, 1852, B. No. 106 which ordered the legalization of several lands granted by the Municipality of Ilha da Brava.
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Decree No. 132/71 of 6 April: The Regulation for the Occupation and Concessions of Land in the Overseas Colonies, approved by Decree No. 43894, of September 6, 1961, was initially applied to Guinea, Angola, and Mozambique, and later to the colony of Cape Verde, by Ordinance No. 24229 of August 9, 1969. Promulgated by Marcelo Caetano—Joaquim Moreira da Silva Cunha on March 26, 1971.
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In the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cape Verde—Law n° 9/ 11/ 82 of May 5, 1982 “General Bases of Agrarian Reform.”
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Legislative Decree No. 3/2008, of October 13 —Legal Regime of Land Registry.
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Technical Support Team—It is composed of one or more representatives of the central services responsible for registration, justice, the property of the State and Municipal Councils in the area covered by the registration execution operation, without prejudice to the inclusion of representatives of other entities or Services depending on the specifics of the area in question.
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Ordinance 12 of 2015 (Portaria n° 12/2015, March 19), which defines the configuration rules of the ‘Parcel Identification Number’.
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Regulatory Decree No. 28/2014 of October 22.
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Regime Jurídico de Cadastro Predial (Cadastre legislation).
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Andrade, A.J.B., Varela, C.A.R. (2022). Unification of the Land Cadastre with the Land Registry in Cape Verde: Challenges and Opportunities for Local and Urban Governance. In: Nunes Silva, C. (eds) Local Governance in Cape Verde . Local and Urban Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05847-9_5
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