This Decree concerns adjudication and registration of rights and interest in land. It sets out the procedure of the receipt of claims for adjudication and adjudication of land. It also provides for the appointment of adjudication officers, the safeguarding of rights of absent persons and minors, and for procedures in case of objection to adjudication record. Whenever it appears expedient to the Minister that the adjudication and registration of rights and interest in land in any area should be effected, the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare that this Decree shall apply to that area and thereupon that area shall become an adjudication area.