Framework Law
Constitutional provisions
Natural resources: Appendix II is concerns land and land settlement. It defines the competences and duties on these matters of the State and Provincial Councils. There shall be established a National Land Commission which shall be responsible for the formulation of national policy with regard to the use of State land. This Commission will include representatives of all Provincial Councils in the Island Provisions on Inter-Provincial Irrigation and Land Development Projects are laid down as well. Inter-Provincial Irrigation and Land Development Projects will comprise irrigation and land development schemes: a. within the Province initiated by the State and which utilize water from rivers flowing through more than one Province (a Provincial Council however, may also initiate irrigation and land development schemes within its Province utilizing water from such rivers); b. within the Province which utilize water through diversions from water systems from outside the Province.