Luanda - President João Lourenço, approved a Decree that establishes the rules and procedures relating to the configuration, allocation, transmission and extinction of the Property Identification Number (NIP).
Published on the 22nd of this month in the Republic Gazeta, the Decree #188/24 also establishes the models for certificates, registration and changes to registration data for urban and rural buildings in the country.
The document justifies the measure with the need to ensure the complementarity of the geometric, legal and matrix property registration activity, in order to constitute a reference system based on the identification of each building, through the attribution of a unique number throughout the national territory.
The decision supports the need to configure the Property Identification Number to standardize the identity of properties throughout the national territory, regardless of their legal status or purpose, as reported by Jornal de Angola (Angola Newspaper) on Monday's edition.
The NIP, made up of 14 digits, aims to uniquely identify each existing building in the national territory and guarantee the standardized and uniform management of registration data.
It is a code of sequential and neutral composition based on geographic references linked to the geodetic reference established by law for use in the country.
It will be assigned by the Central Registration Service based on the configuration parameters defined in the previous article. Whenever a plot is detached from a registered building, the Diploma clarifies, each resulting part or area is assigned a new NIP.
“Any change to the boundaries and/or area of a registered building, which do not derive from the situations set out in the previous number, will give rise to the updating of the information about this building in the registration database, without, however, changing the NIP”.
NIP's attributions requirements
A requirement for the attribution of the Property Identification Number is the cadastral registration of the building in accordance with article 7 of the Land Registry Legal Regime Law.
In this chapter, the Decree clarifies that the procedure for attributing the NIP in the process of granting land rights goes through the Central Registration Service, which analyzes the legal compliance of the legal status of the building to be granted.
If there is no non-compliance, the NIP is assigned, but only after the data has been validated by the aforementioned service.
The Building Identification Number is extinguished in situations of total destruction of the building or in the event of a merger of two or more contiguous registered buildings.
In this case, the existing NIPs are extinguished, giving way to a new number for the resulting building.
The registration of buildings in the Integrated Land Registry System is done with the Central Registry Service, and is mandatory for the practice of any legal act regarding it.
The granting entities are obliged to send to the Central Registration Service, for the purposes of registration and attribution of the NIP, all titles of land rights or mining and forestry exploitation, legally constituted before the entry into force of this Act.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous paragraph, all public and private entities holding titles to land rights and/or mining and forestry rights, established before the entry into force of this decree, are also called to send them to the Service Registration Center for registration and NIP assignment purposes.
The mandatory period for remission of land titles or mining and forestry rights for registration purposes is six months, counting from the effective date of the decree, under penalty of not being able to carry out any legal act relating to rural and urban properties.
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