África Oriental

This Act makes provision for the adjudication of rights with respect to village land in relation with the settlement and resettlement of peoples in villages for the purposes of a policy promoting the development of villages. The Act also declares rights held under customary law to be extinguished.

This Act states that the portions of State land specified in the Schedule shall vest in the Fund established under the Ilois Trust Fund Act. “State land” shall have the same meaning as in the State Lands Act.

Amended by: State Land (Alienation) (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 38 of 2003). (2003-09-17)

This Act authorizes sworn surveyors to carry out activities as independent professionals and private entities are authorised to carry out topography, photogrammetry and cartography. The Council of Ministers shall have authority to issue Regulations governing those activities.

La présente ordonnance modifie les dispositions relatives aux sanctions prévues pour les infractions aux dispositions des projets d’urbanisme ou d’aménagement.

Modifie: Loi nº 67-167 relative à l'urbanisme. (1960-10-03)

This Act makes provision for general matters relating to written law in Kenya and contains interpretations of words and expressions used in written law in Kenya.This Act shall not apply for purposes of the construction or interpretation of the Constitution. The Constitution is not a written law for the purposes of this Act.

The Act makes provision for the registration of title in land and related matters. The Act also defines characteristics of various rights in land, sets out the effects of registration if title in land and provides for the acquisition of land by prescription.As for the administration of land registration, there shall be land registry offices and officers for each registration district.

This Act makes provision with respect to the transcription of deeds regarding land transactions and rights and mortgages. The Act sets out the documents to be transcribe documents to be transcribed and how they are to be transcribed. Documents shall be transcribed by filing them with the Mortgage Office or the Conservator of Mortgages.

This Act concerns the lease of settled estates. "Settled estate" is defined in section 2 as "all immovable property and all estates or interests in any such immovable property, which are subject of any settlement".

Persons having acquired a just and lawful right of title in derelict lands, either by prescription or by contract or in any other manner, may apply to the High Court to order the registration of such title (sect. 3). Section 4 provides for the application for the registration of land by persons entitled to "expropriate" such land.

The Commission is established as a body corporate and shall be the principal advisory organ of the Government on all matters related to land use.

The Act provides for the imposition of rates on land as defined by the Valuation for Rating Act and related matters. Rates shall be levied by local authorities (“rating authority”) to meet liabilities of the general rate fund, the county fund or the township rate fund.

The Act makes provision for various matters relating to customary land, private land and public land and powers of the Minister in respect of such land.The Act consists of 44 sections divided into 8 Parts: Preliminary (I); general (II); Private Land (III); Private land (IV); Customary land (V); User of land (VI); Trespass or encroachment upon, or unlawful occupation of, land (VII); Miscellaneou