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Moffat Tunnel – leased to Union Pacific Railroad by the state of Colorado under a 99-year lease until 2025. [5] A lease extension of 25 years was agreed to after the initial 99 years expired. [6] [7] Ontario Highway 407 Express Toll Route – leased to private company by the Ontario provincial government under Premier Mike Harris for C$3.1 ...
In June 1998, the Zimbabwe government published its "policy framework" on the Land Reform and Resettlement Programme Phase II (LRRP II), which envisaged the compulsory purchase over five years of 50,000 square kilometres from the 112,000 square kilometres owned by white commercial farmers, public corporations, churches, non-governmental ...
Since 2015 after the Donbas and Crimea invasion Russia agreed to lease 300,000 hectares to China for 50 years for $449 million US dollars. The lease can be extended in 2018 if the first stage from 2015 to 2018 was successful. Russia needed the Chinese funds to replace a shortfall caused by international sanctions.
The unstable business environment in countries like Central Africa, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar has also affected related industries, with some projects even forced to halt completely. [8] Originally this farm was set up in the context of China–Africa Friendship Cooperation. There was not so much economic interest involved …
These islands were converted from a 1901 999-year lease to a permanent grant by the UK Privy Council in 2008. [2] The Privy Council judgment (Article 71) confirmed Raphaël Fishing Company [3] legally as "the holder of a Permanent Grant of the thirteen islands mentioned in the 1901 Deed (transcribed in Vol TB25 No 342) subject to the conditions therein referred to."
It is another kind of work, and 70 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) It is one of "official texts of enactments, bills prepared for presentation in parliament, official records of judicial proceedings and decisions, other material published in the Gazette , official texts of international ...
Leaseholders have a right after two years to extend a lease with less than 99 years to run and reduce ground rent to a "peppercorn", i.e. close to zero, but developers have thwarted this with costly leases of more than 150 years that make the valuation – based on the ground rent and term – beyond the reach of leaseholders, and sell the ...
Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empire since 1842 after the First Opium War and its territory was expanded on two occasions; first in 1860 with the addition of Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island, and again in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99-year lease for the New Territories. The date of the handover in 1997 marked the end of ...