AFG: Presidential Decree of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Concerning Modification of a Series of Articles of the Land Exproration Law Published in the Official Gazette (794), 1421 L.H.

Sections (1&3) of article (3) and articles (12, 13, 16, 17, 20 and 22) shall be amended as follow: 

1- Under section (1) of article 3 the expression ‘railway’ shall be added after the expression ‘highways’, and the text (and schools, implementation of urban plans) shall be added after the expression (seminaries or religious schools), and under section (3) of article 3 the expression (and legal) shall be added following the expression (canonical). 

2- Article 12: Constructional materials, residential quarters and other buildings shall belong free of charge to the owner after payment of the costs thereof. Under such circumstance the process of demolishing the building shall be undertaken by the owner. In case of refusal or negligence on the part of the owner to voluntarily demolish, forced demolition shall take place by the municipality assisted by the security organs. 

Residential quarters and other buildings which have not been demolished following the enforcement of the land expropriation law despite their lands being expropriated shall also be subjected to the provision of the present article.