Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====List of Mandatory land laws==== [[File:WhitePaper.jpg|thumb|140px|Land classification as prescribed in 1940]] * Land Transfer Ordinance of 1920 * 1926 Correction of Land Registers Ordinance * Land Settlement Ordinance of 1928 * Land Transfer Regulations of 1940 In February 1940, the British Government of Palestine promulgated the ''Land Transfer Regulations'' which divided Palestine into three regions with different restrictions on land sales applying to each. In Zone "A", which included the hill-country of Judea as a whole, certain areas in the [[Jaffa]] sub-District, and in the [[Gaza District]], and the northern part of the [[Beersheba]] sub-District, new agreements for sale of land other than to a Palestinian Arab were forbidden without the High Commissioner's permission. In Zone "B", which included the [[Jezreel Valley]], eastern Galilee, a parcel of coastal plain south of [[Haifa]], a region northeast of the Gaza District, and the southern part of the Beersheba sub-District, sale of land by a Palestinian Arab was forbidden except to a Palestinian Arab with similar exceptions. In the "free zone", which consisted of Haifa Bay, the coastal plain from [[Zikhron Ya'akov]] to [[Yibna]], and the neighborhood of Jerusalem, there were no restrictions. The reason given for the regulations was that the Mandatory was required to "ensur[e] that the rights and positions of other sections of the population are not prejudiced", and an assertion that "such transfers of land must be restricted if Arab cultivators are to maintain their existing standard of life and a considerable landless Arab population is not soon to be created"<ref>''A Survey of Palestine'' (Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the [[Anglo-American Committee]] of Inquiry), vol. 1, chapter VIII, section 7, Government Printer of Jerusalem, pp. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/A-Survey-of-Palestine/Story6703.html 260β262] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192325/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/A-Survey-of-Palestine/Story6703.html |date=12 September 2017 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page