Interim Measures for Land Requisition Compensation and Resettlement of South-to-North Water Transfer Project Chapter III Land Requisition Compensation

Article 10 A project legal person shall apply for pre-examination of land use before the feasibility study report of the project is submitted for approval, and apply for land use to the relevant municipal and county land authorities three months before the project starts or the reservoir area is impounded. After being summarized by the provincial land administrative department, it shall be reported to the State Council by the provincial people's government for approval. The competent department shall, according to the progress of resettlement, submit an application for land use to the relevant municipal and county land authorities six months before resettlement, and report it to the people's government with the right of approval according to law.

Eleventh temporary land for engineering construction, cultivated land occupation and compensation balance should be implemented in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies.

Article 12 Where newly developed land or land adjustment is used to resettle occupied farmers or rural migrants, the relevant local people's government shall pay land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies to the village that provided the land or the collective economic organization that moved into the village, and the village collective economic organization shall announce the income and expenditure and distribution of the above fees to its members, accept supervision, and ensure that it is used for the production and resettlement of occupied farmers or rural migrants. Where other economic organizations provide resettlement land, they shall use it for compensation in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies.

Thirteenth rural immigrants who voluntarily resettle by visiting relatives and friends shall apply to the people's government at the county level where they moved out, and the people's government at the county level where they moved in shall issue a certificate of receiving and providing land. After the three parties sign the agreement, the people's government at the county level where they moved out shall allocate land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies to the people's government at the county level where they moved in.

Fourteenth personal property compensation and relocation expenses of immigrants shall be paid by the people's government at the county level where they moved out. The people's government at the provincial level shall uniformly print the cash card for the compensation of immigrant households, which shall be filled out by the people's government at the county level and sent to the immigrant households for verification.

Fifteenth cities (towns), enterprises and institutions and special facilities relocation, should be in accordance with the original scale, the original standard or restore the original function of the investment compensation. City (town) relocation compensation shall be paid to the relevant local people's government. The relocation compensation for enterprises, institutions and special facilities shall be paid to the enterprise legal person or the competent unit according to the signed relocation agreement. The relocation expenses increased due to the expansion of scale and improvement of standards shall be solved by the relevant local people's governments or relevant units themselves.