ACT ON SPECIAL CASES CONCERNING THE PARTITION OF CO-OWNED LANDS

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to resolve inconveniences in the exercise of ownership of land and the use of land and to ensure the appropriateness of the land management system, by permitting landowners to subdivide jointly-owned land based on the current status of occupation.

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act shall be defined as follows: <Amended by Act No. 12634, May 21, 2014; Act No. 12738, Jun. 3, 2014; Act No. 13805, Jan. 19, 2016>

1. The term "cadastral record" means a cadastral record defined in subparagraph 19 of Article 2 of the Act on the Establishment, Management, etc. of Spatial Data;

2. The term "competent cadastral authority" means the competent cadastral authority defined in subparagraph 18 of Article 2 of the Act on the Establishment, Management, etc. of Spatial Data;

3. The term "co-owned land" means land falling under any of the following:

a. a parcel of land the title to which is registered in the names of at least two owners in the relevant register;

b. a parcel of land separately managed and divided by a road or any other similar facility, which is an urban/Gun planning facility defined in subparagraph 7 of Article 2 of the National Land Planning and Utilization Act, in a tract of land on which houses, appurtenant facilities, or welfare facilities have been built with the approval of a project plan under Article 15 of the Housing Act;

4. The term "cadastral survey product" means a land survey products registered in actual cadastral survey maps, the area measurement register, and the cadastral survey register prepared subsequent to a cadastral survey;

5. The term "interested party" means a person whose rights and interests, other than ownership, are registered in the register for a parcel of co-owned land subject to partition(excluding persons holding a right to attachment, provisional attachment, or provisional injunction).

ACT ON SPECIAL CASES CONCERNING THE PARTITION OF CO-OWNED LANDS

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Scope of Application) #

Article 4(Competent Authority for Administrative Affairs) #

Article 5(Principles for Subdivision) #

Article 6(Relationship to other Acts) #

Article 7(Limitations, etc. on Co-Owners and Interested Parties) #

Article 8(Special Cases concerning Service of Documents) #

Article 9(Co-Owned Land Partition Committee) #

Article 10(Formation of Committee) #

Article 11(Committee's Functions) #

Article 12(Committee's Decisions, etc.) #

Article 13(Perusal of Documents, etc.) #

Article 14(Application for Partition, etc.) #

Article 15(Referring to Committee) #

Article 16(Decisions on and Public Notice of Commencement of Partition) #

Article 17(Registration, etc. of Decisions to Commence Subdivision) #

Article 18(Petitions for Objection to Decisions to Commence Partition, etc.) #

Article 19(Objection against Decision to Dismiss Objection) #

Article 20(Objection against Decisions to Dismiss Application for Partition etc.) #

Article 21(Final Decisions on Commencement of Partition) #

Article 22(Investigations and Cadastral Surveys) #

Article 23(Investigations and Cadastral Surveys regarding Current Status of Occupation of Co-owners) #

Article 24(Investigations and Cadastral Surveys regarding Private Roads, etc.) #

Article 25(Cadastral Survey of Portion of Land Unoccupied) #

Article 26(Preparation of Protocol of Subdivision) #

Article 27(Description of Matters regarding Liquidation) #

Article 28(Calculation of Area Equivalent to Share) #

Article 29(Service and Public Notice of Certified Copies of Protocol) #

Article 30(Written Objections against Protocol of Subdivision) #

Article 31(Decisions, etc. on Filing an Objection) #

Article 32(Appeal to Decision, etc.) #

Article 33(Final Protocol of Partition) #

Article 34(Effect of Partition) #

Article 35(Effect of Protocol of Partition to Successors and Indication of Successors) #

Article 36(Adjustment of Cadastral Records) #

Article 37(Requests for Registration of Partition, etc.) #

Article 38(Special Provisions regarding Registration of Partition) #

Article 39(Notice of Completion of Registration of Partition) #

Article 40(Settlement) #

Article 41(Exclusion of State, etc. from Payment of Settlement Money, etc.) #

Article 42(Payment, etc. of Settlement Money) #

Article 43(Cost of Partition) #

Article 44(Exemption from Fees for Inspection of Registry, etc.) #

Article 45(Jurisdiction) #

Article 46(Penalty Provisions) #

Article 47(Administrative Fines) #