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CHAPTER 114

THE VILLAGE LAND ACT

[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

Title

PART I

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

1. Short title.

2. Interpretation.

PART IIAPPLICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY

3. Fundamental principles of National Land Policy.

PART III

TRANSFERS AND HAZARD LAND

4. Transfer of village land to general or reserved land.5. Transfer of general or reserved land to village land.

6. Declaration of hazard land.

PART IV

VILLAGE LANDS

A : M an a g e m e n t a n d A d m i n i s t r a t i o n

7. Village land.8. Management of village land.

9. Advice by the District Council.

10. Conflict of interest.11. Joint village land use agreements between villages.

12. Division of village land.

13. Communal village land.14. Land which is or may be held for customary rights of occupancy.

15. Confirmation of validity of interests in land created under and by Operation Vijiji.

16. Confirmation of validity of allocations of land made by village councils since 1 January

1978.17. Occupation of village land by non-village organisation.

18. Incidents of customary right of occupancy.19. Incidents of a customary lease.

20. Law applicable to customary right of occupancy.

21. Register of village land.



B : G r a n t a n d M a n ag e m e n t o f C u s t o m a r y R i g h t o f O c c u p a n c y

22. Application for customary right of occupancy in village land.23. Determination of application for customary right of occupancy.

24. Contract for a customary right of occupancy.25. Grant of a customary right of occupancy.

26. Payment of premium on grant of customary right of occupancy.

27. Length of term of customary right of occupancy.28. Rent.

29. Conditions.

30. Assignment of customary right of occupancy by villager.31. Approval required for private disposition of derivative right.

32. Grant of derivative right by village council.

33. Criteria for determining application for approval for or a grant of a derivative right.34. Duties of grantee of derivative right.

35. Surrender of customary right of occupancy by villager.36. Regrant of surrendered customary right of occupancy.37. When breach of condition of customary right of occupancy arises.

38. Remedies for breach of condition.

39. Remedies in accordance with customary law.40. Fine for breach of condition.

41. Summary action to remedy breach of condition.

42. Supervision order to remedy breach of condition.43. Temporary assignment of customary right of occupancy on account of breach of

condition.

44. Revocation of customary right of occupancy.45. Abandonment of land held for a customary right of occupancy.

46. Application for relief.

47. Appeals.

C : A d j u d i c a t i o n o f I n t er e s t i n L a n d

48. Application of this Subpart.49. Spot adjudication.

50. Village or district adjudication.

51. Determination to apply village adjudication.52. Appointment and functions of village adjudication adviser.

53. Village adjudication committee.

54. Procedures for village adjudication.55. Appeals.

56. District adjudication.

57. Principles of adjudication.58. Land sharing arrangements between pastoralists and agriculturalists.

59. Staying of suits.

PART V

DISPUTE SETTLEMENT



60. Village Land Council.61. Functions of Village Land Council.

62. References of disputes from Village Land Council to Court.

PART VI

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

63. Offences.

64. Corrupt transactions.

65. Regulations.66. Translation.

CHAPTER 114

THE VILLAGE LAND ACT

An Act to provide for the management and administration of land in villages, and for

related matters.

[1st May, 2001]

[G.N. No. 486 of 2001]

Act No. 5 of 1999

PART I

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS (ss 1-2)

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Village Land Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires–

"adjudication officer" means a person appointed to be an adjudication officer under

section 56 of this Act;

"certificate of approval to a derivative right" means a certificate granted under section 31

of this Act;

"certificate of customary right of occupancy" means a certificate issued under section 29

of the Land Act *(1);

"certificate of village land" means a certificate issued under section 7 of this Act;

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Lands appointed under section 9 of the Land

Act *(2);



"communal right of way" has the meaning ascribed to it by section 157 of the Land Act;

"communal village land" has the meaning ascribed to it by section 13 of this Act;

"Constitution" means the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania *(3);

"Court" means the Court established under section 167 of the Land Act *(4) to hear and

determine land disputes and includes the Ward Tribunals, the Village Land Council, the District

Land and Housing Tribunal, and the Land Division of the High Court;

"customary law" has the meaning ascribed to it by the Interpretation of Laws Act *(5);

"customary lease" means a lease the mode of creation and incidents of which including its

termination are governed by customary law;

"customary mortgage" means a mortgage the mode of creation and incidents of which are

governed by customary law;

"customary right of occupancy" means right of occupancy created by means of the

issuing of a certificate of customary right of occupancy under section 27 of this Act and includes

deemed right of occupancy;

"deemed right of occupancy" means the title of a Tanzanian citizen of African descent or a

community of Tanzanian citizens of African descent using or occupying land under and in

accordance with customary law;

"derivative right" means a right to occupy and use land created out of a right of occupancy

and includes a lease, a sublease, a licence, a usufructuary right and any interest analogous to

those interests;

"disposition" means, in relation to a right of occupancy, any sale, mortgage, transfer, grant,

partition, exchange, lease, assignment, surrender, or disclaimer and includes the creation of an

easement, a usufructuary right, or other servitude or any other interest in a right of occupancyand any other act by an occupier of a right of occupancy whereby his rights over that right of occupancy are affected but does not include an agreement to undertake any of the dispositions

so defined;

"district adjudication" has the meaning ascribed to it under section 56;

"district authority" means a district council, a township authority or a village council;

"Elders Council" means the Elders council established under section 60;

"Gazette " has the meaning ascribed to it by the Interpretation of Laws Act *(6);

"general land" means all public land which is not reserved land or village land;



"hazard land" means land declared to be hazard land under section 6 of this Act:

"immediate family" means, in relation to a person, any other person related to that person

in the third or a closer degree of affinity or consanguinity and in all cases shall include personswithin those degrees of affinity and consanguinity whether born in or out of wedlock, whether

born in or outside Tanzania, and where any person referred to above has had more than onespouse, shall include all such spouses and persons to the fourth or closer degree of affinity

thereto;

"joint village land use agreement" means the agreement made, adopted and approved

under section 11 of this Act;

"land" includes the surface of the earth and the earth below the surface, things naturally

growing on the land, buildings and other structures permanently affixed to or under land andland covered by water;

"land sharing arrangement" means a land sharing arrangement prepared under section

58;

"lender" means a person to whom a mortgage has been given as security for the payment

of an advance of money or money's worth or to secure a condition;

"lessee" means a person to whom a lease is granted and includes a person who has

accepted a transfer or assignment of a lease;

"lessor" means a person by whom a lease is granted and includes a person who hasaccepted the transfer or assignment of the reversion of a lease;

"lien" means the holding by a lender of any document of title relating to a right of occupancyor a lease as security for an advance of money or money's worth or the fulfilment of a condition;

"local government authority" means a district authority or an urban authority;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being responsible for land;

"mortgage" means an interest in a right of occupancy or a lease securing the payment of

money or money's worth or the fulfilment of a condition and includes a submortgage and theinstrument creating a mortgage;

"notice of temporary assignment" means a notice issued under section 43 of this Act;

"non-village organisation" means an organisation referred to by section 18 of this Act;

"Operation Vijiji" means and includes the settlement and resettlement of people in villages

commenced or carried out during and at any time between the first day of January, 1970 for or in connection with the purpose of implementing the policy of villagisation, and includes the

resettlement of people within the same village, from one part of the village land to another part



of that village land or from one part of land claimed by any such person as land which he heldby virtue of customary law to another part of the same land, and the expropriation of it in

connection with Operation Vijiji so defined;

"order of abandonment" means an order made under section 45 of this Act and includes a

provisional and a final order of abandonment;

"order of temporary assignment" means an order issued under section 43 of this Act;

"public land" means and includes all the land of Tanzania;

"register" means a register prescribed under section 21 of this Act for the recording of

rights and interests in and dispositions of and in connection with customary rights of occupancy;

"reserved land" means land referred to by section 7 of this Act;

"right of occupancy" means a title to the use and occupation of land and includes the titleof a Tanzanian citizen of African descent or a community of Tanzanian citizens of Africandescent using or occupying land in accordance with customary law;

"spot adjudication" has the meaning ascribed to it by section 49 of this Act;

"supervision order" means an order issued under section 42 of this Act;

"transfer land" means general or reserved land which is to be transferred to become a part

of village land;

"unexhausted improvement" means any thing or any quality permanently attached to the

land directly resulting from the expenditure of capital or labour by an occupier or any person

acting on his behalf and increasing the productive capacity, the utility, the sustainability or theenvironmental quality thereof and includes trees, standing crops and growing produce whether

of an agricultural or horticultural nature but does not include the results of ordinary cultivation;

"village" means a village registered as such under the Local Government (District

Authorities) Act *(7);

"village adjudication" means the process of adjudication provided for by sections 51 to 55

of this Act;

"village adjudication adviser" means the person appointed to be a village adjudication

adviser under section 52 of this Act;

"village adjudication committee" means the committee established under section 53 of

this Act;

"village assembly" has the meaning ascribed to it by the Local Government (District



Authorities) Act *(8);

"village council" has the meaning ascribed to it by the Local Government (District

Authorities) Act, 1982;

"village land" means the land declared to be village land under and in accordance with

section 7 of this Act and includes any transfer land transferred to a village;

"village land council" means the village land council established under section 60 of this

Act;

"village register" means the register of interests and rights in village land kept in

accordance with section 21 of this Act;

"village transfer land" means village land which is to be transferred to become part of

general or reserved land;

"villager" means a person ordinarily resident in a village or who is recognised as such by

the village council of the village concerned.

PART II

APPLICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY (s 3)

3. Fundamental principles of National Land Policy

(1) The fundamental principles of National Land Policy which are the objectives of the Land Act *(9), to promote and to which all persons exercising powers under, applying or interpreting

this Act are to have regard to are–

(a) to make sure that there is established an independent, expeditious and just system for

adjudication of land disputes which will hear and determine land disputes withoutundue delay;

(b) to recognise that all Land in Tanzania is public Land vested in the President as trusteeon behalf of all citizens;

(c) to ensure that existing rights in and recognised long standing occupation or use of Land are clarified and secured by the law;

(d) to facilitate an equitable distribution of and access to land by all citizens;

(e) to regulate the amount of land that any one person or corporate body may occupy or

use;

(f) to ensure that land is used productively and that any such use complies with the

principles of sustainable development;

(g) to take into account that an interest in land has value and that value is taken into



consideration in any transaction affecting that interest;

(h) to pay full, fair and prompt compensation to any person whose right of occupancy or

recognised long-standing occupation or customary use of land is revoked or otherwiseinterfered with to their detriment by the State under this Act or is acquired under the

Land Acquisition Act *(10);

(i) to provide for an efficient, effective, economical and transparent system of Land

administration;

(j) to enable all citizens to participate in decision making on matters connected with their

occupation or use of land;

(k) to facilitate the operation of a market in Land;

(l) regulate the operation of a market in Land so as to ensure that rural and urban

small-holders and pastoralists are not disadvantaged;

(m) to set out rules of Land Law accessibly in a manner which can be readily understoodby all citizens;

(n) to establish an independent, expeditious and just system for the adjudication of Landdisputes which will hear and determine cases without undue delay;

(o) to encourage the dissemination of information about land administration and Land Lawas provided for by this Act through programmes of public and adult education, using all

forms of media.

(2) The right of every adult woman to acquire, hold, use, deal with and transmit by or obtain

land through the operation of a will, shall be to the same extent and subject to the samerestrictions as the right of any adult man.

PART III

TRANSFERS AND HAZARD LAND (ss 4-6)

4. Transfer of village land to general or reserved land and vice versa

(1) Where the President is minded to transfer any area of village land to general or reservedfor public interest, he may direct the Minister to proceed in accordance with the provisions of

this section.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), public interest shall include investments of nationalinterest.

(3) The Minister shall cause to be published in the Gazette and sent to the village council

having jurisdiction over the land which is the subject of the proposed transfer, hereinafter called"village transfer land" a notice specifying–



(a) the location of the area of the village transfer land;

(b) the extent and boundaries of the village transfer land;

(c) a brief statement of the reasons for the proposed transfer;

(d) the date, being not less than sixty days from the date of the publication of the notice,when the President may exercise his power to transfer the land or a part of it.

(4) Where any portion of the village transfer land has been allocated to a villager or a groupof villagers under a customary right of occupancy or a derivative right or a person or a group of

persons to use the land, the village council shall inform those villagers or, where any one of those villagers is absent, a member of the family occupying or using the land with that villager,of the contents of the notice.

(5) Any person referred to in subsection (4) may make representations to the Commissioner

and to the village council on the proposed transfer of the land and the persons to whom thoserepresentations are made shall take them into account in any decisions or recommendationsthat they may make on the proposed transfer.

(6) Where the village transfer land is–

(a) less than 250 hectares in extent, the village council shall prepare and submit

recommendations for the proposed transfer to the village assembly for it to approve or refuse and the village assembly shall hold a meeting under section 103(3) of the LocalGovernment (District Authorities) Act *(11) to consider the recommendations of the

village council and any representations made by the district council of the area wherethe land is situate, and decide whether to approve or refuse to approve the proposed

transfer;

(b) greater than 250 hectares, the Minister shall, after considering any recommendations

made by the village assembly through the village council, district council and anyrepresentations on the matter made by the village and district councils of the areawhere the land is situate, by resolution, signify his approval or refusal to approve the

proposed transfer.

(7) The Commissioner or an authorised officer shall be under a duty to attend a meeting of

the village council or village assembly as the case may be to explain the reasons for theproposed transfer and answer questions thereon and any person or a representative of any

organisation who or which is proposing to use and occupy the village transfer land under a right

of occupancy may, at the invitation of the village council or village assembly as the case maybe, address the meeting and answer questions if any about the proposed use of the land.

(8) No village transfer land shall be transferred–

(a) until the type, amount, method and timing of the payment of compensation has been



agreed upon between–

(i) the village council and the Commissioner; or

(ii) where subsection (3) and (9) apply, the persons referred to in those subsections

and the Commissioner; or

(b) if the matters of compensation referred to in paragraph (a) cannot be agreed until the

High Court has agreed as an interim measure, pending final determination of thematters of compensation, to the payment of any sum on account which it thinks proper by the Commissioner to the village council and to the persons referred to in subsection

(3) as the case may be; or

(c) if general or reserved land is to be exchanged with the village transfer land, that

general or reserved land has been identified and is ready to be transferred to the

village.(9) Where the relevant body under subsection (5) has, by resolution, approved the transfer

of the village transfer land or a part of it, the President may exercise his power to transfer that

village land or a part of it to general or reserved land.

(10) Where village transfer land or any part of it is occupied by persons to whom subsection

(3) applies, the President shall, where he is minded to exercise his power to transfer that land togeneral or reserved land, determine whether those persons may continue to occupy and usethe land, subject to any terms and conditions, which he may impose, or whether the rights of

those persons shall be compulsorily acquired, subject to the payment of compensation.

(11) The President may direct that any compensation payable under this section shall be

paid by the person or organisation to whom or which the village transfer land which has beentransferred to general land is granted by a right of occupancy.

(12) The President may direct the Minister to appoint an inquiry under section 19 of the Land Act *(12) into a proposed transfer and where that inquiry has been appointed, no further actionin accordance with this section shall be taken on that proposed transfer until after the inquiry

has reported.

(13) A transfer of village land to general or reserved land shall be notified in the Gazette and

shall come into effect thirty days after the date of the publication of the notice.

(14) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to any provisions in any Act referred to

in section 7 which set out the manner in which land is brought under any of those Acts and anypowers which may be exercised under any of the provisions of those Acts shall be exercised in

a manner which will ensure that the provisions of this section are complied with.

5. Transfer of general or reserved land to village land

The President may direct the transfer of any area of general or reserved land to village land



subject to the provisions of section 6 of the Land Act *(13).

6. Declaration of hazard land

(1) The Minister may declare any area of a village land to be hazard land subject to theprovisions of subsection (3).

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), any local authority having jurisdiction inany village may advise the Minister to declare any of the Village Land as hazard Land if in its

opinion it is necessary to do so.

(3) For purposes of this section, hazard land is land the development of which is likely to

pose a danger to life or to lead to the degradation of or environmental destruction on that or contiguous land and includes but is not limited to–

(a) mangrove swamps and coral reefs;

(b) wetlands and offshore islands in the sea and lakes;

(c) land designated or used for the dumping of hazardous waste;

(d) land within sixty metres of a river bank or the shoreline of an inland lake;

(e) land on slopes with a gradient exceeding any angle which the Minister shall, after taking account of proper scientific advice, specify;

(f) land specified by the appropriate authority as land which should not be developed onaccount of its fragile nature;

(g) land specified by the appropriate authority as being land which should not bedeveloped on account of its environmental significance.

(4) The declaration of any land to be hazard land shall be in accordance with the provisionsof this section.

(5) Where the Minister considers that an area of land should be declared to be hazard land,in this section referred to as 'proposed hazard land' he shall publish a notice in the Gazette

specifying–

(a) the location of the proposed hazard land;

(b) the boundaries and extent of the proposed hazard land;

(c) a brief statement of the reasons for the proposed declaration;

(d) the date, being not less than sixty days from the date of the publication of the notice,when the declaration may be made.



(6) A copy of the notice referred to in subsection (5) shall be–

(a) served on all persons occupying and using the proposed hazard land in a manner and

form as will be understandable to those persons;

(b) on all local authorities having jurisdiction in the area of the proposed hazard land;

(c) put up in conspicuous places within the area of the proposed hazard land.

(7) All persons and authorities on whom a notice has been served and all persons andorganisations on whom a notice should have been served but was not and any other person or

organisation with an interest in land may, within not less than thirty days after the date of theservice of the notice, make representations to the Commissioner on the proposed declarationand the Commissioner shall be under a duty to hear and record the representations and take

them into account in determining whether to recommend to the Minister that the land or any part

of it be declared to be hazard land.(8) Where the Minister, after considering a report prepared by the Commissioner under

subsection (7) determines that the proposed hazard land or a part of it shall be declared to be

hazard land, he may, subject to subsection (9), make a declaration accordingly.

(9) Where the proposed hazard land or a part of it is occupied and used by any person under

a granted or customary right of occupancy, the Minister shall, if he considers that that land or apart of it should be declared to be hazard land, report the matter to the President.

(10) The President may, after considering the report of the Minister, declare any land to

which subsection (9) applies to be hazard land and any such declaration shall operate tocompulsorily acquire, subject to compensation, any right of occupancy in that land.

(11) A notice of a declaration of hazard land shall be published in the Gazette and shallcome into force thirty days after the date of the publication of the notice.

PART IV

VILLAGE LANDS (ss 7-59)

A : Ma n a g e me n t a n d A d min is tra t io n (ss 7-21)

7. Village land

(1) Village land shall consist of–

(a) land within the boundaries of a village registered in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Local Government (District Authorities) Act *(14);

(b) land designated as village land under the Land Tenure (Village Settlements) Act, 1965*(15);

(c) land, the boundaries of which have been demarcated as village land under any law or



administrative procedure in force at any time before this Act comes into force, whether that administrative procedure based on or conducted in accordance with any statute

law or general principles of either received or customary law applying in Tanzania andwhether that demarcation has been formally approved or gazetted or not;

(d) land, the boundaries of which have been agreed upon between the village councilclaiming jurisdiction over that land and–

(i) where the land surrounding or contiguous to that village is village land, the villagecouncils of the contiguous village;

(ii) where the land surrounding or contiguous to that village is general land, theCommissioner; or

(iii) where the land surrounding or contiguous to that village is reserved land, the

official or public organisation for the time being responsible for that reserved land;or

(iv) where the land which is claimed as a part of the land of, or is surrounding or

contiguous to, that village is land which has been declared to be urban land or pre-urban land, the local authority having jurisdiction over that urban land or peri-urban land; or

(v) where the land which is claimed as a part of the land of or is surrounding or contiguous to that village is land which is occupied and used by a person or body

under a right of occupancy, that person or body;

(e) land, other than reserved land, which the villagers have, during the twelve years

preceding the enactment of this Act been regularly occupying and using as villageland, in whatever manner such persons or the village assembly or village council wereallocated such land including land–

(i) lying fallow at any time during the said preceding twelve years;

(ii) used for depasturing cattle belonging to villagers or to persons using that land withthe agreement of the villagers or in accordance with customary law;

(iii) land customarily used for passage to land used for depasturing cattle.

(2) Where a village claiming or occupying and using land as village land is unable to agree

with or is in dispute with a person or body referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) as to

the boundaries of the land which it is claiming or occupying and using as village land, or wishesto determine the boundaries of the land it is occupying and using in accordance with paragraph

(d) of subsection (1), the Minister shall, on being satisfied that every effort has been made to tryand reach an agreement on the boundaries either–

(a) appoint a person to act as a mediator between the village and the person or body with



which the village is unable to reach agreement, the function of that person shall be towork with and persuade the village authorities and that person or body to reach a

compromise over the boundaries; or

(b) where the mediator reports to the Minister that despite his best endeavours, he is

unable to persuade the parties to the dispute to reach a compromise on theboundaries, advise the Minister to appoint an inquiry under section 18 of the Land Act

*(16) to adjudicate on and demarcate the boundaries of that village land.

(3) An inquiry appointed under section 18 of the Land Act *(17) to adjudicate and demarcate

the boundaries of village land shall conduct such an inquiry in accordance with any specificdirections and procedures set out in the document appointing the person or persons to conductthat inquiry.

(4) Where the Minister has exercised any of his powers under subsection (2), all parties to a

dispute shall forthwith refrain from taking any action which may or is calculated or likely to affectthe outcome of the dispute and where any party to a dispute takes such action, the mediator or as the case may be the inquiry shall hold that action against the party that took it in conductingthe mediation or as the case may be in determining any recommendations at the conclusion of

the inquiry.

(5) The Minister shall, unless there are overriding reasons of public interest to the contrary,

accept the recommendations of the inquiry appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) asto the boundaries of the village land which was the subject of the inquiry.

(6) The Commissioner shall issue to every village in respect of which the boundaries tovillage land have been demarcated or agreed in accordance with the provisions of this section

or under any law or administrative procedure referred to in this section, a certificate of villageland in the prescribed form.

(7) A certificate of village land shall–

(a) be issued in the name of the President;

(b) confer upon the village council the functions of management of the village land;

(c) affirm the occupation and use of the village land by the villagers under and in

accordance with the customary law applicable to land in the area where the village issituate;

(d) where the villagers are pastoralists or have a predominantly pastoral way of life, shallaffirm the use, for purposes of depasturing cattle, of land other than village land which

is customarily so used by those persons.

(8) It shall be the responsibility of the village council of the village to which a certificate of

village land has been granted to maintain and at all times to keep secure that certificate of



village land.

(9) Where the boundaries of any village land are altered or amended, the Commissioner

shall direct the village council of the village, the boundaries of whose land has been altered tosend the certificate of village land to the Commissioner for endorsement on that certificate of

the alteration or amendment of the boundaries and the village council shall comply with thatdirection.

(10) The Commissioner shall maintain a register of village land in accordance with such rulesas may be prescribed.

(11) References to the boundaries of village land in this Part shall be to general boundaries.

(12) A certificate or other document of registration issued to any village registered under the

provisions of section 22 of the Local Government (District Authorities) Act *(18) shall, where the

Ministry responsible for Lands approves that it satisfies the conditions for the grant of certificateof village land, have the same effect and force as regards village land as a certificate of villageland issued to a village under this section.

8. Management of village land

(1) The village council shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be responsible for themanagement of all village land.

(2) The village council shall exercise the functions of management in accordance with theprinciples applicable to a trustee managing property on behalf of a beneficiary as if the councilwere a trustee of, and the villagers and other persons resident in the village were beneficiaries

under, a trust of the village land.

(3) In the management of village land, a village council shall have regard to–

(a) the principle of sustainable development in the management of village land and therelationship between land use, other natural resources and the environment in and

contiguous to the village and village land;

(b) the need to consult with and take account of the views and, where it is so provided,

comply with any decisions or orders, any public officer or public authority having jurisdiction over any matter in the area where the village land is;

(c) the need to consult with and take account of the views of other local authorities having jurisdiction in the area where the village land is.

(4) A village council may establish a committee to advise and make recommendations to iton the exercise of any of the functions of the management of village land but, not withstanding

the provisions of section 110 of the Local Government (District Authorities) Act *(19) suchcommittee shall have no power to take any decisions concerning the management of village



land.

(5) A village council shall not allocate land or grant a customary right of occupancy without a

prior approval of the village assembly.

(6) A Village Council shall–

(a) at every ordinary meeting of the Village Assembly, report to and take account of the

views of the Village Assembly on the management and administration of the Villageland; and

(b) brief the Ward Development Committee and the District Council, having jurisdiction inthe area where the village is situated on the management of the village land.

(7) The Commissioner may give any advice, either generally to all village councils or to aspecific village council on the management of village land which he considers necessary or

desirable and all village councils to which that advice is given shall have regard to that advice.

(8) Where on a complaint made to a district council by a village assembly or by not less thanone hundred villagers that the village council is not exercising the function of managing village

land in accordance with this Act and other laws applying to village land or with due regard to theprinciples applicable to the duties of a trustee, the district council shall inform the Commissioner

of the mattter and subject to any agreement he may make with that district council, the councilshall either:

(a) advise the complainants to amicably settle the matter with the machinery of village or

other local government authority to resolve the issue; or

(b) through a full meeting of the district council, use its best endeavours to resolve theissue and advise the village council as to its future conduct of the management of village land; or

(c) request the Commissioner to issue a directive to the village council on themanagement of that village land which that village council shall be required to comply

with; or

(d) recommend to the Commissioner on the appointment of an inquiry under section 18 of

the Land Act *(20), to investigate the complaint and make recommendations on it.

(9) An inquiry appointed under paragraph (d) of subsection (8) may recommend to the

Minister that the management of the village land be removed from the jurisdiction of the village

council the subject of the inquiry either for a fixed or an indeterminate period and transferred toeither–

(a) the district council having jurisdiction in the area where the village whose villagecouncil is being inquired into is situate; or



(b) the Commissioner.

(10) Where the Commissioner, or an inquiry, determines that the village council has taken or

omitted to take any action on village land which is contrary to law, the Commissioner shall takeall such action as may be necessary to re-establish the lawful management of that village land

and the proper allocation of interests in that village land.

(11) The Minister may, in consultation with the Minister responsible for local government, by

regulations, make arrangements for the management of village lands jointly between–

(a) two or more villages; or

(b) between one or more village and the district council having jurisdiction in the areawhere the village or villages which are to be part of an arrangement of joint

management are situate; or

(c) between one or more village and an urban authority within whose boundaries thatvillage or those villages are situate,

and that arrangement may provide for the Commissioner to be involved in that joint

management of village land.

(12) Any villager who is aggrieved by the management of village land by a village council,

including management by a village council as part of any arrangement for joint managementhas standing to sue that village council in respect of the management of that village land.

9. Advice by the district council

(1) A district council may provide advice and guidance to any village council situate within itsarea of jurisdiction concerning the administration by that village council of village land, either in

response to a request for that advice and guidance from a village council or of its own motionand any village council to which that advice and guidance is given shall have regard to thatadvice and guidance.

(2) No advice and guidance given by a district council shall contradict or conflict with anydirective or circular issued by the Commissioner under subsection (3) of Section 11 of the Land

Act *(21).

(3) Where a conflict of interest arises in respect of administration of village land, any

member of a village council who or a committee of the council dealing with land which iscovered by that description shall declare his conflict of interest and shall take no further part in

nor attend any meeting of the village council or its committee where the land the subject of theconflict of interest is on the agenda, and any person who fails to declare that conflict of interestor who contravenes this provision shall render himself liable to disciplinary proceedings

applicable to a member of the village council.



10. Conflict of interest

(1) Where any matter concerning land in which any member of the village council exercising

functions under this Act or any member of his immediate family has an interest is allocated to,referred to or otherwise comes to that member of the village council for his advice, assistanceor decision that member shall not exercise any function under this Act in respect of that land.

(2) For the purposes of this section "immediate family" means, any other person related tothat person as a father or mother, son or daughter, wife or husband and brother or sister

whether born in or out of wedlock, whether born in or outside Tanzania, and where any personreferred to above has more than one spouse, shall include all those spouses.

11. Joint village land use agreements between villages

(1) In the exercise of the powers of management, a village council shall have power to enter

into an agreement, to be known as a joint village land use agreement with any other villagecouncil concerning the use by any one or more groups of persons, of land traditionally so usedby those groups, being the land which is partly within the jurisdiction of one village and partlywithin the jurisdiction of another village with which an agreement is to be entered into and that

agreement may be amended, modified or varied from time to time.

(2) Where an agreement which is referred to in subsection (1) is to be entered into, the

village councils proposing to enter into that agreement shall–

(a) first, convene one or more meetings of the groups of persons using the land which is

to be the subject of the agreement–

(i) to give groups an opportunity to make representations about their use of land and

the content of any agreement about that use;

(ii) explain the nature, purpose and proposed content of that agreement to those

groups;

(b) second, prepare a draft agreement which shall take account of any representations

made at any meeting convened under subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a);

(c) third, inform the district council or district councils having jurisdiction in the area where

the land covered by the proposed agreement is located of the contents of the draftagreement;

(d) fourth, place that draft agreement before a meeting of the village assembly of each of

the villages proposing to enter into an agreement for the approval of each such villageassembly.

(3) An agreement made in accordance with this section shall not take effect unless and untilit is approved by each village assembly of the villages proposing to enter into that agreement.



(4) An agreement made under and in accordance with this section may include mattersconcerning–

(a) the boundaries of the land covered by the agreement;

(b) the use of the land, or parts of it, by different groups of persons, and the periods of time when that group may so use the land or part of it including arrangement for thedual use of land or part of it by one or more group of persons using that land for

different purposes at the same time;

(c) the nature and scope of any rights to or interests in land recognised by the rules of

customary law applicable to the land covered by the agreement, and where more thanone set of rules of customary law are applicable to that land, the manner of resolving

any conflict between the sets of rules;

(d) the manner of resolving disputes about the use of the land covered by the agreement;(e) any other matters which may be prescribed or which the village councils shall consider

necessary and desirable.

(5) An agreement reached by villagers of two or more villages about the use, by thosevillagers jointly of village land which falls within the jurisdiction of two or more villages or an

agreement reached between the traditional leaders of a group of persons using village landwhich falls within the jurisdiction of two or more villages and the village councils of thosevillages may be adopted and approved as a joint village land use agreement by the village

assembly of the village of those villagers or, as the case may be, of that village council.

(6) A district council having jurisdiction in the area where the land covered by a proposed

agreement is located may require the village council to place any comments which that districtcouncil may have about the proposed agreement before the meeting of the village assemblycalled to approve the agreement.

12. Division of village land

(1) Village land shall be divided into–

(a) land which is occupied and used or available for occupation and use on a communityand public basis, to be known as communal village land, by all villagers and any other

persons who are, with the agreement of the village council, living and working in thevillage whether those persons are occupying and using village land under a derivativeright or not and that communal village land shall not be made available for individual

occupation and use by any person through a grant of a communal or individualcustomary right of occupancy or a derivative right or any other disposition;

(b) land which is being occupied or used by an individual or family or group of personsunder customary law; or



(c) land which may be made available for communal or individual occupation and usethrough allocation by the village council in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

(2) Village land referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) may be made thesubject of a grant, in accordance with the provisions of this Part, by a village council to the

occupier of that land or a citizen who is a villager or a group of citizens who are villagers or anyother citizens who may be provided for in this Part, of a customary right of occupancy, by

means of a document to be known as a "certificate of customary title".

(3) Village land referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) may be made the subject of a

derivative right granted by a village council in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

13. Communal village land

(1) The village council shall recommend to the village assembly what portions of village land

shall be set aside as communal village land and for what purposes.(2) The recommendations of the village council may be put forward as–

(a) a land use plan for the village or part of it; or

(b) specific recommendations on specific portions of village land; or

(c) partly in accordance with paragraph (a) and partly in accordance with paragraph (b).

(3) The district council shall provide advice and guidance to village councils on the exerciseof their functions under this section.

(4) A village council shall, when exercising functions under this section, have regard to any

advice and guidance provided under subsection (3).

(5) On receipt of the recommendations of the village council under this section, the villageassembly shall–

(a) approve;

(b) approve with amendments;

(c) refer back for further consideration; or

(d) reject,

the recommendations and where the village assembly rejects the recommendations, the villagecouncil shall bring forward, as soon as may be, different recommendations.

(6) The village council shall maintain a register of communal village land in accordance withany rules which may be prescribed.

(7) Any land which has been set aside by a village council or village assembly for community



or public occupation and use or any land which is and has been, since the formation of thevillage, habitually used whether as a matter of practice or under customary law or regarded by

village residents as available for use as community or public land before the enactment of this Act, shall be deemed by this Act to be communal village land approved as such by the village

assembly and shall be registered by the village council under subsection (6).

(8) Where there is a dispute between a person occupying land which is claimed as

communal village land under subsection (7) and the village council, the Minister may, on beingsatisfied that–

(a) the dispute cannot be resolved through the organs of village government; or

(b) the continuation of the dispute may lead to serious disruption in the village,

exercise his powers or direct the Commissioner to exercise his powers under the provisions of

subsections (6) to (10) of section 8 of this Act in relation to that dispute.14. Land which is or may be held for customary rights of occupancy

(1) Land which is or may be held for a customary right of occupancy shall be–

(a) any village land;

(b) any general land occupied by persons who immediately before the coming intooperation of this Act held that land under and in accordance with a deemed right of

occupancy.

(2) It is hereby affirmed that, notwithstanding any of the provisions of–

(a) the Town and Country Planning Act *(22); and

(b) Part III of the Land Acquisition Act *(23),

a person who occupies and has for not less than a total of ten out of twelve years immediately

preceding the enactment of this Act, occupied land in an urban or peri-urban area as hisprincipal place of residence and does not occupy that land as a tenant of another person towhom the Urban Leaseholds (Acquisition and Regrant) Act *(24) could be applicable, or under

a granted right of occupancy, occupies that land under a customary right of occupancy andshall–

(i) where that land or part of it is from the date of the enactment of this Act to be

compulsorily acquired; or (ii) has been or is to be declared to be a part of any scheme which involves the

extinguishing of all private rights in the land or any injury to the land or the occupation

and its use under the provisions referred to in this subsection or any other law,

be entitled to receive full, fair and prompt compensation from the loss or diminution of the value



of that land and the buildings and other improvement on it.

(3) For purposes of subsection (2) occupation by the family of the person claiming to have

been in occupation for the specified time shall be deemed to be occupation by that person.

(4) If any question arises as to whether a person in occupation of land is a person to whomthe provisions of subsection (2) applies, that person shall be deemed to be the person unlessthe contrary is proved to the satisfaction of a court and he and all parties claiming under him or

consistently with his occupation shall be deemed to be entitled to compensation.

(5) Any rights in relation to land which have been determined under section 6 of the Forests

Act *(25) to be lawfully exerciseable within any area declared to be a forest reserve by anyperson or group of persons are hereby affirmed to be and to have always been rights arising

from a customary right of occupancy.

(6) In section 8 of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act *(26), the reference to land heldunder a right of occupancy granted under the Land Act *(27), shall be deemed to include landheld under a customary right of occupancy.

(7) Persons who traditionally and in accordance with customary law occupied and used landin any National Park or in the land under the jurisdiction of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority but who, since the enactment of the National Parks Act *(28) and the Ngorongoro

Conservation Act *(29) may occupy that land only with the permission of or under a licence fromthe Director of the National Parks or the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority shall bedeemed to occupy that land under a customary right of occupancy.

(8) Any person or group of persons occupying land under the provisions of section 5 of thePublic Land (Preserved Areas) Act *(30), shall be deemed to be occupying and to have always

occupied that land under a customary right of occupancy.

(9) Nothing in subsections (5), (6) and (7) shall affect the power of authorities exercising

functions under the statutes referred to in those provisions from continuing to regulate the useof land by persons, who by virtue of this section, are occupying land under a customary right of

occupancy.

15. Confirmation of validity of interests in land created under and by Operation Vijiji

(1) An allocation of land made to a person or a group of persons residing in or required to

move to and reside in a village at any time between first day of January, 1970 and the thirty-firstday of December,1977, whether made under and in pursuance of a law or contrary to or in

disregard of any law, is hereby confirmed to be and to have always been a valid allocationcapable of and in law giving rise to rights and obligations in the party to whom the allocationwas made and extinguishing any rights and obligations vested in any person under any law

which may have existed in that land prior to that allocation.

(2) A granted right of occupancy made to a person or group of persons residing in or



required to move to and reside in a village at any time between first day of January, 1970 andthe thirty-first day of December, 1977 whether granted in accordance with the procedures of the

Land Act *(31) or not, and whether registered under and in accordance with the provisions of the Land Registration Act *(32), or not is hereby confirmed to be and to have always been from

the time of the grant a valid granted right and obligations in the grantee as from the date of thegrant and extinguishing any rights and obligations vested in any person under any law whichmay have existed in that land prior to that grant.

(3) A written offer of a granted right of occupancy or a letter of offer of a granted right of occupancy issued by an officer authorised to do so, made to a person or group of persons

residing in or required to move to and reside in a village between the first day of January, 1970and the thirty-first day of December, 1977, whether made in accordance with the provisions of

the Land Act *(33) or not, and whether registered under and in accordance with the provisionsof the Registration of Documents Act *(34), or not is hereby confirmed to be and to have alwaysbeen a valid offer or as the case may be, a valid letter of offer which may, at any time before

first day of January 2000, be acted upon so as to create a right of occupancy which shall be acustomary right of occupancy and that customary right of occupancy shall extinguish any rightsand obligations vested in any person by any law which may have existed prior to the written

offer of or the letter of offer for a granted right of occupancy.

(4) The interest in land created by an allocation of land to which subsection (1) refers and the

right of occupancy to which subsection (2) refers are hereby confirmed to be and to havealways been a customary right occupancy.

(5) A person or group of persons who, by virtue of this section occupy land under acustomary right of occupancy may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Part,

obtain a certificate of customary title in respect of that occupation of land.

(6) Where a customary right of occupancy confirmed by subsections (1) and (2) or capable

of being created under subsection (3) is or would be held in respect of an acreage of land whichexceeds the maximum acreage of village land which a person is permitted under this Act tooccupy, that customary right of occupancy shall, subject to the payment of any compensation or

that grant of a right of occupancy in general land which is provided for by this Part, and takingaccount of the views of the customary right holder as to the portion of land to be exercised as

excess land, be terminated in respect of that exercised land by the village council exercisingmanagement powers over that village land.

(7) Every derivative right granted out of a customary right of occupancy confirmed by thissection is hereby confirmed to be and to have always been a valid derivative right in any

manner it was created and to whom it was granted.

(8) A derivative right referred to in subsection (7) which conflicts with any of the provisions of this Act relating to the persons to whom, the period for which and amount of land which a

derivative right granted out of a customary right of occupancy is required to comply with, maysubject to the payment of any compensation which is required by this Act and any other



conditions which may be prescribed, be terminated by the village council having managementpowers over the land.

(9) Where there is a dispute between two or more persons, family units or groups of personsas to which of the parties is entitled to land under any of the provisions of subsections (1), (2) or

(3), the village council shall refer the matter to the Village Land Council to mediate between theparties and where the Village Land Council is unable to resolve the dispute between the parties,

the village council shall refer the dispute to the Ward Tribunal and may further refer the matter to court having jurisdiction in the area where the land is situated.

(10) For the avoidance of doubt, this section does not apply to–

(a) any right to occupy or use any land in accordance with any custom or rule of

customary law existing in any village which existed before and was not established or transformed by the addition of significant numbers of persons from outside the district

as a result of Operation Vijiji or in any land which was not brought within the jurisdictionof any village established as a result of Operation Vijiji;

(b) any right to occupy and use land in accordance with any custom or rule of customary

law which existed prior to first day of January, 1970, where that right was beingexercised.

16. Confirmation of validity of allocations of land made by village councils since 1

January 1978

For the avoidance of doubt and in order to facilitate security of tenure and contribute to thedevelopment of village land, the provisions of section 15, other than subsections (2) and (3),

shall apply to any and every allocation of village land made by village council or by any other authority on and after the first day of January, 1978 until the date of the commencement of this Act as if for the dates referred to in subsection (1) of that section, there were substituted the

dates between the first day of January, 1978 and the date of commencement of this Act.

17. Occupation of village land by non-village organisation

(1) A non-village organisation to which this Part applies is–

(a) a government department or any office or part of it;

(b) a public corporation or other parastatal body or any office, part, division or itssubsidiary body;

(c) a corporate or other body, a majority of whose members or shareholders are citizensregistered or licensed to operate under any law for the time being in force in Tanzaniaapplicable to that corporate or other body which does not consist of a majority of the

members of the village; or any similarly composed subsidiary of that corporate or other body.



(2) Where, at the commencement of this Act, any non-village organisation occupies villageland under a granted right of occupancy, that granted right of occupancy shall, notwithstanding

that it exists in village land, continue to be a granted right of occupancy for the remainder of itsterm.

(3) Subject to the provisions of the Land Act *(35), relating to disposition of a right of occupancy the Commissioner shall continue to be responsible for the management of the right

of occupancy to which this section applies.

(4) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that a village council is managing the village land in

an efficient manner, he may, in writing delegate his functions of managing a right of occupancyto which this section applies to that village council subject to any conditions which he shall thinkfit to include in the instrument of delegation.

(5) On and after the coming into operation of this Act, a non-village organisation which

wishes to obtain a portion of village land for the better carrying on of its operations may apply tothe village council for that land, and the village council shall recommend to the Commissioner for the grant or refusal of such grant.

(6) Any association of persons formed in accordance with customary law for the purpose of occupying, using and managing land or any association which has come together and isrecognised with the community of which it is a part as an association of persons formed to

occupy, use and manage land in an urban or peri-urban area, shall, if the persons forming theassociation registers it in accordance with the provisions of the Trustees Incorporation Act

*(36), be recognised as such by this Act and according the provisions of that Act shall apply inrelation to such associations.

18. Incidents of customary right of occupancy

(1) A customary right of occupancy is in every respect of equal status and effect to a grantedright of occupancy and shall, subject to the provision of this Act, be–

(a) capable of being allocated by a village council to a citizen, a family of citizens a groupof two or more citizens whether associated together under any law or not, a

partnership or a corporate body the majority of whose members or shareholders arecitizens;

(b) in village land, general land or reserved land;

(c) capable of being of indefinite duration;

(d) governed by customary law in respect of any dealings, including intestate successionbetween persons residing in or occupying and using land–

(i) within the village having jurisdiction over that land; or

(ii) where the customary right of occupancy has been granted in land other than



village land, contiguous to or surrounding the land which has been granted for acustomary right of occupancy;

(e) subject to any conditions which are set out in section 29 or as may be prescribed andto any other conditions which the village council having jurisdiction over that land shall

determine;

(f) may be granted subject to a premium and an annual rent, which may be varied from

time to time;

(g) capable of being assigned to a citizen or a group of citizens, having a residence or

place of business in the village where the land is situate, or a body corporate themajority of whose shareholders or members are citizens having a place of business in

that village;

(h) inheritable and transmissible by will;(i) liable, subject to the prompt payment of full and fair compensation, to acquisition by

the State for public purposes in accordance with any law making provision for that

action.

(2) The Minister shall make regulations providing for an area of land which a person can hold

under a single right occupancy or derivative right of occupancy or in any way otherwisedisposed of to any person or body of persons.

19. Incidents of a customary lease

Subject to the provisions of Part IX of the Land Act, 1998, a lease and a sublease granted

out of a customary right of occupancy shall be called a "customary lease" and "customarysublease", as the case may be, and shall be governed by the customary law applying to the

land out of which a lease or sublease, as the case may be, has been granted provided that thissection shall not be taken to affect any customary leaseholds enfranchisement under the

Nyarubanja Tenure (Enfranchisement) Act, 1965 *(37) or the Customary Leaseholds(Enfranchisement) Act *(38), or to permit or sanction the reintroduction of any form of customary leaseholds similar in nature to Nyarubanja tenure.

20. Law applicable to customary right of occupancy

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, on any matter concerning the rights and obligationsof a person, a group of persons or a non-village organisation occupying land under a customary

right of occupancy or of any person in dispute with any persons referred to above or of anyperson alleging that he or she is entitled to succeed to or otherwise occupy that land on the

death or permanent incapacity of a person occupying land under a customary right of occupancy or on another matter affecting land held under a customary right of occupancy andpersons ordinarily resident in the village where the land is situate shall, where that matter is not

otherwise provided for under this Act or any other enactment determined in accordance with



customary law.

(2) Any rule of customary law and any decision taken in respect of land held under

customary tenure, whether in respect of land held individually or communally, shall have regardto the customs, traditions and practices of the community concerned to the extent that they are

in accordance with fundamental principles of the National Land Policy and of any other writtenlaw and subject to the foregoing provisions of this subsection, that rule of customary law or any

such decision in respect of land held under customary tenure shall be void and inoperative andshall not be given effect to by any village council or village assembly of any person or body of persons exercising any authority over village land or in respect of any court or other body, to the

extent to which it denies women, children or persons with disability lawful access to ownership,occupation or use of any such land.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Judicature and Application of Laws Act *(39) no Actof the Parliament of the United Kingdom referred to in that Act shall apply to land held for a

customary right of occupancy or otherwise governed by customary law.

(4) The customary law which shall be applied to determine any matters referred to insubsections (1), (2) and (3) shall be–

(a) in the case of a village not established as a result of Operation Vijiji, the customary lawwhich has hitherto been applicable in that village;

(b) in the case of a village established in whole or in part as a result of Operation Vijiji, thecustomary law applicable in the village immediately before the extinguishing of

customary rights in the land under any rules or regulations made under the RuralLands (Planning and Utilisation) Act, 1973 or the enactment of the Regulation of Land

Tenure (Established Villages) Act *(40);(c) in the case of general land held for a customary right of occupancy, the customary law

recognised as such by the persons occupying that land;

(d) in the case of any land customarily used by pastoralists, the customary law recognised

as such by those pastoralists.

(5) The grantor and grantee of of a derivative right may stipulate as a condition of that

derivative right that the law applicable to it shall be the provisions of Parts VIII which relates toDispositions affecting Land and Part IX which relates to leases of the Land Act *(41) and other relevant parts of the laws of Tanzania to the exclusion of customary law.

21. Register of village land

(1) A village council shall maintain a register of village land in accordance with any rules

which may be prescribed by the Minister and the village executive officer shall be responsiblefor keeping that register.



(2) The village executive officer shall not make any entry on the register in respect of anycustomary right of occupancy unless and until he is satisfied that any premia, rent, taxes and

dues payable in respect of that customary right of occupancy or that derivative right in respectof that customary right of occupancy or that derivative right in accordance with the customary

rules applicable in that area have been paid and a receipt or acknowledgement for the samehas been validly endorsed on the certificate of customary title or of that derivative right.

(3) A registry for the purpose of records under this section shall be a village branch of thedistrict land registry for the district in which that village is situate and all persons working in thatdistrict land registry shall fall under the jurisdiction and be subject to the supervision and

direction of the Registrar.

B : Gra n t a n d Ma n a g e me n t o f C u s to ma ry R ig h t o f Oc c u p a n c y (ss 22-47)

22. Application for customary right of occupancy in village land

(1) A person, a family unit, a group of persons recognised as such under customary law or who have formed themselves together as an association, a primary co-operative society or asany other body recognised by any law which permits that body to be formed, who is or are

villagers, or if a married person who has been divorced from, or has left for not less than twoyears, his or her spouse, was, prior to the marriage, a villager, and all of whom are citizens,

may apply to the village council of that village for a customary right of occupancy.

(2) A person or group of persons not ordinarily resident in a village may apply for a

customary right of occupancy.

(3) An application for a customary right of occupancy shall be–

(a) made on a prescribed form;

(b) signed–

(i) by the applicant; or

(ii) where the application is made by a family unit, by not less than two persons fromthe family unit; or

(iii) where the application is by a group of persons recognised as such under customary law, by not less than two persons who are recognised by that law asleaders or elders of the group; or

(iv) where the application is by a group of persons formed into an association, aprimary co-operative society or a body under a law which recognises that body, by

not less than two duly authorised officers;

(v) where the applicant is a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (2),



by not less than five villagers who are not related to any of those applicants; or

(vi) a duly authorised agent of any of the applicants referred to in paragraphs (i) to (iv);

(c) supported by a declaration concerning any other land in Tanzania held by the

applicant;

(d) accompanied by any documents and information which may be prescribed or which the

village council may require;

(e) accompanied by any fee which may be prescribed;

(f) where the applicant is a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (2),accompanied by a signed and witnessed statement that the applicants intend to

establish or commence the construction of their principal place of residence in thevillage within three months of obtaining a customary right of occupancy;

(g) submitted to the village council or its authorised officer.

(4) A village council may require any applicant to submit any further relevant information

which it may specify and shall not be obliged to determine an application until that further information has been submitted or a satisfactory explanation has been submitted as to why thatfurther information cannot be submitted.

23. Determination of application for customary right of occupancy

(1) A village council shall, within ninety days of the submission of an application or withinninety days of the submission of further information or a satisfactory explanation for its

non-availability, determine that application.

(2) In determining whether to grant a customary right of occupancy, the village council shall–

(a) comply with the decisions that have been reached by any committee or other body onthe adjudication of the boundaries to and rights in the land which is the subject of the

application for a customary right of occupancy;

(b) have regard to any guidance from the Commissioner concerning an application from a

non-village organisation;

(c) have special regards in respect of the equality of all persons, such as–

(i) treat an application from a woman, or a group of women no less favourably than

an equivalent application from a man, a group of men or a mixed group of menand women; and

(ii) adopt or apply no adverse discriminatory practices or attitudes towards any

woman who has applied for a customary right of occupancy;



(d) where the application is from a non-village organisation in respect of which noguidance under paragraph (b) has been received, have regard to–

(i) any advice which has been given to the application by the district council or as thecase may be the urban authority having jurisdiction in the area where the village is

situate;

(ii) the contribution that the non-village organisation has made or has undertaken to

make to the community and public facilities of the village;

(iii) the contribution to the national economy and well-being that the development for

which the customary right of occupancy is being applied for is likely to make;

(iv) whether the amount of land in respect of which the non-village organisation is

seeking a customary right of occupancy is so extensive or is located in such an

area that it will or is likely to impede the present and future occupation and use of village land by persons ordinarily resident in the village;

(v) any other matters which may be prescribed;

(e) where the application is from a person or group of persons ordinarily resident in thevillage, have regard to–

(i) where the applicant already occupies village land under a customary right of occupancy whether the allocation of additional land under a customary right of occupancy whould cause that applicant to exceed the prescribed amount of land

which a person or group of persons may occupy in that village.

(ii) where the applicant already occupies land under a customary right of occupancy,whether all the terms and conditions subject to which that right of occupancy isheld and all other regulations relating to the use of that land have been strictly

complied with and if they have not, the reasons for any non-compliance;

(iii) whether the applicant has or is likely to be able to obtain access to the necessary

skills and knowledge to be able to use the land applied for productively and inaccordance with the terms and conditions subject to which the customary right of occupancy will be granted and all other regulations applying to the use of the land

for which the right of occupancy is being applied for;

(iv) the extent and manner in which the applicant, if an individual, intends to make

provision for any dependants that the applicant may have or will, if the applicantdies, have, out of the land;

(v) any other matters which may be prescribed,

(f) where the applicant already occupies village land under a customary right of

occupancy consider whether the allocation of additional land under a customary right



of occupancy would cause that applicant to exceed the prescribed amount of landwhich a person or group of persons may occupy in that village;

(g) where the applicant is a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (2) of section 21 have regard to–

(i) the amount and location of the land the applicant is applying for;

(ii) the purpose for which the applicant is intending to use the land and whether thatpurpose accords with any village development or land use plan;

(iii) the matters referred to in subparagraphs (i) and (iii) of paragraph (d); andsubparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph (e);

(iv) any other matters which may be prescribed.

(3) A village council shall, after considering an application in accordance with subsection (2)–

(a) grant in respect of all or a part of the land applied for subject to any conditions which–

(i) are set out in section 29 or which may be prescribed;

(ii) the village council is directed by the Commissioner to impose in respect of a grantto a non-village organisation; and

(iii) may be prescribed; or

(b) refuse to grant, a customary right of occupancy to the applicant.

(4) Where an application is refused, the village council shall, at the request of the applicant,

furnish that applicant with a statement of reasons for the refusal.

24. Contract for a customary right of occupancy

(1) Where a village council has determined to grant a customary right of occupancy to an

applicant, it shall send or deliver to the applicant an offer in writing, signed by the chairman andsecretary of the village council, in a prescribed form, setting out the terms and conditionssubject to which it will grant that customary right of occupancy to that applicant.

(2) Where an applicant has received an offer in writing under subsection (1), he shall, withinnot more than ninety days, reply in writing signed by the person or persons required under

paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 21 to sign an application for a customary right of

occupancy to that offer in the prescribed form either–

(a) accepting that offer; or

(b) refusing to accept that offer,



and send or deliver that reply to the village council or its authorised officer.

(3) Where the acceptance of an offer made under subsection (1) is conditional upon the

payment of a sum of money by way of a premium, an advance payment of rent, a deposit or any tax or due to the village council or any other person or organisation named in the offer, that

acceptance shall not operate to conclude a contract for the grant of a customary right of occupancy unless and until that sum of money is paid in full to the payee.

(4) A payee who has received a sum of money under subsection (3) shall immediatelyprovide a receipt for that payment to the person who has made that payment.

(5) Where, at any time after the conclusion of a transaction it is shown to the satisfaction of that person or organisation charged with the responsibility for preventing or combating

corruption that any part of the process of obtaining a customary right of occupancy waseffected by a corrupt practice, that customary right of occupancy shall without any further

action, and notwithstanding any other rule of law to the contrary, be deemed to be void and of no effect and the grantee of that void customary right of occupancy shall, without prejudice toany action which may be taken against that person under any law dealing with corruption,immediately become a trespasser on that land, liable to suffer all such action and penalties

applicable to trespassers.

25. Grant of a customary right of occupancy

(1) Where a contract for a grant of a customary right of occupancy has been concluded, avillage council shall, within not more than ninety days of that conclusion, grant a customary rightof occupancy to the applicant who accepted the offer referred to in section 23 by issuing a

certificate, to be known as a `certificate of customary right of occupancy' to that applicant.

(2) A certificate of customary right of occupancy shall be–

(a) in a prescribed form;

(b) signed by the Chairman and secretary of the village council;

(c) signed or marked with a personal mark by the grantee of the customary right of

occupancy to which it relates at the foot of each page of the certificate;

(d) signed, sealed and registered by the District Land Officer of the district in which the

village is situate.

26. Payment of premium on grant of a right of occupancy to a non-village organization

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 17 the village council

may, require the payment of a premium on the grant of a customary right of occupancy to anon-village organisation or a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (3) of section22.



(2) In determining the amount of any premium, the village council shall seek and takeaccount of the advice of the Commissioner, who in giving that advice which may be in the form

of published advice to all village councils shall have regard to the principles governing thedetermination of a premium in respect of granted rights of occupancy set out in subsection (3)

of section 31 of the Land Act *(42).

(3) Where the payment of a premium as aforesaid is required, a demand for that payment

shall be sent or delivered to the person to whom the certificate of customary title is to be sent or delivered at the same time as or before that certificate is sent or delivered to that person.

(4) No certificate of customary right of occupancy shall be valid or of any effect and nooccupation of land under a contract for a customary right of occupancy or otherwise shall belawful until a premium which has been demanded in accordance with subsection (2) has been

paid in full or in any other way which may be provided in the contract for the grant of acustomary right of occupancy.

(5) Where it has been provided under a contract for a customary right of occupancy that apremium may be paid in instalments or in some other manner than in full at the time of or before the issuing of a certificate of customary right of occupancy, and failure to comply with

any term of that contract shall be deemed to be a failure to comply with a condition of the rightof occupancy which shall give rise to revocation by the village Council.

27. Length of term of customary right of occupancy

(1) A customary right of occupancy may be granted–

(a) for a term which may be indefinite or any length of time less than an indefinite term toa person who is a citizen or a group of persons all of whom are citizens provided thatthere shall be a presumption that that person or group of persons shall be granted a

customary right of occupancy for an indefinite term;

(b) for a term together with an option for a further term or terms which together with the

original term may be up to but shall not exceed ninety-nine years;

(c) from year to year or for periods of less than a year determinable by the village council

by one year's notice or less, whether or not the grant includes an initial fixed term doesnot exceed four years.

(2) Where a right of occupancy has been granted for a term certain, with or without an optionfor a further term or terms certain, no reduction in the length of that term certain or the term or

terms certain contained in the option or options shall be made to or introduced in the option or options shall be made to or introduced into that right of occupancy by the village council withoutthe agreement of the occupier.

28. Rent



(1) The village council may require the payment of an annual rent–

(a) for a right of occupancy from a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (2)

of section 23;

(b) from a non-village organization, subject to the provisions of subsections (3), (4) and (5)of section 17.

(2) The rent shall be paid in any instalments and at any intervals of time during the year which shall be provided in the certificate of customary title.

(3) The rent shall be paid to the village council or an authorised officer of that council and asigned receipt in respect of each payment of rent that is made shall be given to the payer of that rent.

(4) In determining the amount of any rent, the village council shall–

(a) comply with any directives from the Commissioner on the amount of, or the method of,or the factors to take into account in, determining the amount of any rent which is to bepaid;

(b) where no such directives have been issued, take account of–

(i) any advice given by the Commissioner on the amount of, or the method of or thefactors to take into account in determining any rent which is to be paid;

(ii) the use of land permitted by the customary right of occupancy which has beengranted;

(iii) the value of land as evidenced by any dispositions of land in the area where thecustomary right of occupancy has been granted, whether those dispositions weremade in accordance with customary law or not;

(iv) an assessment by a qualified and authorised value or other person withknowledge of the value of land of the appropriate amount of rent which should be

paid for land;

(v) the amount of any premium required to be paid on the grant of a customary right

of occupancy.

(5) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any certificate of customary right of

occupancy or in any of the provisions of any conditions of a customary right of occupancy, inevery case in which the village council requires the payment of a rent, that council shall, subjectto the approval of the Commissioner, have the power to revise that rent at intervals of not less

than five years and in any exercise of that power, the determination of any revised rent shall bein accordance with subsection (4).



(6) Where the village council determines to grant a customary right of occupancy to anyperson or organisation of land which is to be used exclusively for religious worship or for burial

or exclusively both for religious worship and for burial, that council shall not require the paymentof any rent in respect of that customary right of occupancy.

(7) The village council may grant a customary right of occupancy at a nominal rent if the landis to be used exclusively for a charitable purpose by a non-village organisation and is

empowered to review and increase that rent if the land ceases to be used exclusively for acharitable purpose.

(8) Where any rent or instalment of any rent payable in respect of a customary right of occupancy or any part of that rent or instalment remains unpaid for a period of six months after the date on which the same is required to be paid, interest at a rate of two per centum a month

or part of it, or at any other rate which the Minister may by order prescribed, shall be payable onthe amount of the arrears as it is from time to time until payment of the whole amount is made

from the date from which the rent or instalment first fell into arrears and shall be collected andrecoverable in the same manner as rent.

(9) The acceptance by or on behalf of the village council of any rent shall not be held to

operate as a waiver by that council of any right to revoke the customary right of occupancyaccruing by reason of the breach of any covenant or condition, express or implied in any

contract for a customary right of occupancy or in any certificate of customary title granted under this Act.

(10) The provisions of section 50 of the Land Act *(43) in relation to the summaryproceedings for recovery of rent shall apply to rent due and owing under this Part as they applyto rent due and owing under Part VI of the Land Act.

29. Conditions

(1) Every customary right of occupancy shall be granted subject to the conditions set out in

this section and any other conditions which may be prescribed.

(2) Every grant of a customary right of occupancy shall contain the implied conditions that–

(a) the occupier will use and will take steps to ensure that those persons occupying andworking the land with him or occupying and working the land with his permission will–

(i) keep and maintain the land in good state; and

(ii) in the case of land to be used for farming, farm the land in accordance with the

practice of good husbandry customarily used in the area; and

(iii) in case of land to be used for pastoral purposes, use the land in a sustainable

manner in accordance with the highest and best customary principles of pastoralism practised in the area;



(b) any permissions that are required to be obtained before any buildings are erected willbe obtained and no building will be erected until those permissions have been so

obtained;

(c) the occupier will pay any rent, fees, charges, taxes and other required payments due in

respect of his occupation of the land as and when such imposts fall due;

(d) the occupier will comply with all rules, including all rules of customary law and all

by-laws applicable to the land and all lawful orders and directions given to him by thevillage council or any person acting with the authority of the village council relating to

his use and occupation of the land or any orders of any local or other authority having jurisdiction over land in the area where the land is situate or any orders of any officer exercising powers under this Act;

(e) the occupier will retain and keep safe all boundary marks, whether natural or otherwise

on or at the boundaries to the land;

(f) the occupier will remain residing in the village but where he is to be temporarily absent,will make all proper arrangements for the land to be managed and used in accordance

with the conditions set out in this subsection.

(3) A person who signs a certificate of customary right of occupancy in accordance with the

provisions of section 24 shall, where he signs on his own behalf, be deemed to have boundhimself and, be deemed to have bound that group of village organisation, be deemed to havebound that group of persons or that non-village organisation as the case may be, to the village

council to observe and comply strictly with each and every condition contained in that certificateof customary right of occupancy.

(4) The Commissioner and any authorised officer of the village council or other departmentof government may, subject to the provisions of section 171 of the Land Act *(44) relating to the

right of entry enter on land the subject of customary right of occupancy and to inspect whether the conditions under which the customary right has been granted are being complied with.

30. Assignment of customary right of occupancy by villager

(1) A villager or group of villagers or a lender of monies on the security of a mortgageexercising the powers of sale provided for by sections 131 to 133 of the Land Act *(45) in

relation to power of sale may assign a customary right of occupancy in the land held for thatcustomary right of occupancy or a part of it to–

(a) a villager or a group of villagers;

(b) the village council;

(c) a person or group of persons, being citizens, to whom subsection (2) applies.

(2) An assignment of a customary right of occupancy may be made to a person or group of



persons not ordinarily resident in a village if and only if–

(a) the village council approves of the assignment;

(b) there is an agreement prior to the assignment;

(c) in event of termination of the agreement the assignment shall be made to a citizen;

(d) that person or the authorised representative of that group of persons make and sign a

deposition that he or they will make that village his or their principal place of residenceor work or commence the construction of one or more houses to be a principal place of

residence within six months of that deposition; or

(e) that person or that group of persons make and sign a deposition that he or they will

within six months of the making of that deposition commence the construction of someindustrial, commercial or other building which is likely to provide benefit for villagers or

the village; or

(f) that person or that group of persons make and sign a deposition that he or they intendwithin six months of the making of that deposition to commence some agricultural,

mining, tourist or other development which is be likely to provide benefit to villagers or the village.

(3) The parties to a proposed assignment shall notify the village council on a prescribed formof that proposed assignment not less than sixty days before it is proposed.

(4) The village council shall disallow an assignment which–

(a) would result in the assignee occupying an amount of land in excess of the prescribed

maximum for that village;

(b) would operate or would be likely to operate to defeat the right of any woman to occupy

land under a customary right of occupancy, a derivative right or as a successor in titleto the assignor;

(c) would result in the assignor occupying an amount of land insufficient to provide for hislivelihood or where he has a family or other dependants, for their livelihood;

(d) is to be made to a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (2) and–

(i) those persons have not made the required deposition; or

(ii) the village council is in possession of clear evidence that, notwithstanding that adeposition has been made, the person or persons who made the deposition do not

intend to comply with it;

(e) is to be made to a person who occupies land under a customary right of occupancy but



is and has been for not less than six months in breach of–

(i) one or more terms and conditions subject to which he occupies land under that

customary right of occupancy; or

(ii) any rules applicable to the land or the use of the land which he occupies under that customary right of occupancy;

(f) does not comply with any other matters which may be prescribed.

(5) Where a village council determine to disallow an assignment, it shall send or deliver to

the parties within sixty days of the receipt of a notice of assignment, a notice to disallow theproposed assignment in the prescribed form.

(6) An assignment that infringes the criteria set out in subsection (4) or that is madenotwithstanding the service of a notice to disallow on one or both parties to the assignment

shall be void.

(7) A village council shall–

(a) send a copy of any notification of assignment and any notice to disallow to theCommissioner;

(b) record any assignment of a customary right of occupancy and any notice to disallow inthe register of village land.

31. Approval required for private disposition of derivative right

(1) This section applies to the disposition, by the holder of a certificate of occupancy or right

of occupancy, of a derivative right in the land held for a customary right of occupancy.

(2) A disposition of a derivative right to which this section applies shall–

(a) comply with the provisions of this section and the sections 32 and 33;

(b) be void if the provisions of the sections referred to in paragraph (a) are not compliedwith.

(3) Unless otherwise provided for by this Act or regulations made under this Act, adisposition of a derivative right shall require the approval of the village council having

jurisdiction over the village land out of which that right may be granted.

(4)(a) The grant of a lease, a licence, a usufruct or an equivalent interest in customary lawfrom year to year or for a lesser period to a person ordinarily residing in the village from aperson ordinarily residing in the village; and

(b) The creation of–



(i) a small mortgage; or

(ii) a mortgage for an amount equal to or less than the amount for which a small mortgage

may be created; or

(iii) a mortgage, reasonable sale or pledge under and in accordance with customary law infavour of a person ordinarily residing in the village by a person ordinarily residing in thevillage for a sum not greater than the sum which may be obtained by a loan through a

small mortgage;

(iv) a lease for not more than ten years by a lender excising the powers of leasing

contained in section 29 of the Land Act *(46) relating to the leader's power of leasing,

shall not require the approval of the village council.

(5) An application for approval to a grant of a derivative right shall be–

(a) made to the village council on a prescribed form;

(b) signed by the applicants;

(c) accompanied by a simple plan showing the location and boundaries of the land andany further information which may be prescribed;

(d) accompanied by any fees which may be prescribed.

(6) The village council may require relevant information additional to that which is referred to

in subsection (5) and shall not be under any obligation to determine an application in respect of which it has required additional information until that additional information has been submitted

to it or a satisfactory explanation of why that additional information cannot be submitted to it hasbeen submitted to it.

(7) The village council may consult with any person or organisation on an application for an

approval to which this section applies but shall not be obliged to accept any advice received asa result of any consultation, nor, shall it be obliged to delay a determination on the application

where it has requested for an advice within a certain time and that advice has not beensubmitted within that certain time.

(8) An approval of a derivative right under this section shall–

(a) be personal to the applicant; and

(b) not be assignable.

(9) An approval of a derivative right shall be–

(a) in the prescribed form to be known as a `certificate of approval to a derivative right'



with the specific derivative right for which approval has been given named in brackets;

(b) signed by the chairman and secretary of the village council;

(c) accompanied by a demand for any premium, rent, taxes or dues which may be

prescribed or which may be determined by the village council;

(d) delivered or sent by registered letter to the holder of the certificate of customary right

of occupancy to his last known abode or his usual place of business;

(e) entered in a register of appeals to be kept by the village council.

(10) A derivative right shall be made subject to any terms and conditions which may beprescribed or which the grantor shall determine.

(11) Where the derivative right permits the grantee to occupy and use any land in the village,

that occupation and use shall be subject to the provisions of section 29 of this Act.

(12) A derivative right may be registered in the register of village land and that registrationshall–

(a) constitute notice of the existence and content of that derivative right;

(b) confer priority on that derivative right as against any derivative right created out of the

same customary right of occupancy before the registered derivative right which has notbeen registered, whether or not that prior created derivative right was known to the

grantee of the later created derivative right.

32. Grant of derivative right by village council

(1) This section applies to the grant by a village council of a derivative right in village land.

(2) An application for a grant of a derivative right shall be–

(a) made to the village council on a prescribed form;

(b) signed by the party applying for the derivative right or his duly appointed agent or representative;

(c) accompanied by simple plan showing the location and boundaries of the land and anyother information which may be prescribed or which may be required by the village

council;

(d) accompanied by any fees which may be prescribed;

(e) notified to the members of the village by any means of publicity which will bring thematter to their attention.

(3) The village council may require any relevant information additional to that referred to in



paragraph (c) of subsection (2) and shall not be under any obligation to determine anapplication in respect of which additional information has been required until that information

has been submitted to it or a satisfactory explanation as to why it cannot be submitted has beensubmitted to it.

(4) The village council may consult with any person or organisation on an application madefor a derivative right under this section but shall not be obliged to accept any advice which it

obtains as a result of any consultation, nor, shall it be obliged to delay making a determination if it has requested for an advice within a specific period and that advice has not been receivedwithin that period.

(5) An application for the grant of a lease under this section–

(a) of five hectares or less and for five years or less, to be known as a class A application,shall be determined by the village council;

(b) of more than five but less than thirty hectares and for more than five but less than tenyears, to be known as a class B application, shall be determined by the village councilsubject to confirmation by the village assembly;

(c) of more than thirty hectares or for more than ten years, to be known as a class Capplication, shall be determined by the village council subject to confirmation by the

village assembly and the advice of the Commissioner.

(6)(a) A Class A application shall be–

(i) determined within sixty days of the receipt of the application or within sixty days of thereceipt of additional information required under subsection (3);

(ii) deemed to be approved if the village council does not determine it within the periodreferred to in paragraph (i);

(b) A class B application shall be–

(i) determined by the village council upon that determination being submitted for

confirmation to the village assembly within ninety days of the receipt of the applicationor within ninety days of the receipt of additional information required under subsection

(3);

(ii) submitted to the village assembly not less than seven days before the meeting at

which that application is to be considered for approval;

(iii) approval or refused by the village assembly within thirty days of the period referred to

in paragraph (i);

(iv) deemed to be determined in accordance with the decision of the village council if it is



refused by the village assembly within the periods referred to in paragraph (i);

(c) A Class C application shall be–

(i) determined by the village council and that determination submitted to the village

assembly to be considered for confirmation within one hundred and twenty days of thereceipt of the application or within one hundred and twenty days of the receipt of additional information required under subsection (3);

(ii) submitted to the village assembly not less than fourteen days before the meeting atwhich that application is to be considered for approval;

(iii) approval or refused by the village assembly within sixty days of the periods referred toin paragraph (i);

(iv) submitted to the Commissioner, together with all information for his advice if any within

thirty days of the approval by the village assembly;

(v) approval or refused by the village council within thirty days or any longer period whichmay be determined by village council;

(vi) deemed to be refused if the Commissioner advises the village council against it andthe village council agrees with him within two hundred and ten days or any longer

period which is referred to in paragraph (v) of the receipt of the application by thevillage council or of the receipt by the village council of additional information requiredunder subsection (3).

(7) A grant of a derivative right under this section shall be–

(a) personal to the applicant;

(b) not assignable without the consent of the village council after the approval of the

village assembly.

(8) An application for an approval to assign a derivative right granted under this section shall

be made on a prescribed form and shall comply in every respect with and be governed by theprovisions of this section as if it were an application for a grant of a derivative right.

(9) A grant of a derivative right shall be–

(a) in the prescribed form;

(b) signed by the chairman and secretary of the village council;

(c) accompanied by a demand for any premium, rent, fees, taxes and dues which are

prescribed or which may be determined by the village council;

(d) where it is the grant of a lease for which a Class C application had been made,



counter-signed by the Commissioner and shall unless and until it is so counter signed;

(e) delivered or sent to the applicant at his last known abode or usual address;

(f) entered in the register of village land.

(10) A grant of a derivative right under this section shall be made subject to section 29 andsuch other terms and conditions as may be prescribed or as are determined by the village

council.

33. Criteria for determining application for approval or for a grant of a derivative right

(1) A village council and, in respect of a Class B and Class C application under section 32, a

village assembly, shall, in determining whether to give approval to a private disposition of aderivative right under section 34 or to grant a derivative right under section 32 have regard to allor any of the following matters which appear to the village council to be relevant to the

application, that is to say–

(a) any land use plan prepared or in the process of being prepared by or for the village;

(b) the likely benefits to be derived by the village as a whole by the grant of the derivativeright;

(c) the need to ensure the maintenance of sufficient reserve of land for occupation anduse by villagers and for community and public use by those persons;

(d) the need to ensure that the special needs of women for land within the village is andwill continue to be adequately met;

(e) the need to ensure that the special needs of landless people and the disabled withinthe village will continue to be adequately met;

(f) any advice received from any person or organisation which has been consulted on theapplication;

(g) any advice or information given by any department of Government on the application;

(h) any other matters which may be prescribed.

(2) Where the derivative right which is the subject of an application is a lease for more than

ten years to be granted by a lender exercising the powers of leasing contained in section 181,of the Land Act *(47) relating to lenders power of leasing there shall be a presumption that,

notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), approval will be given to the lease andnotwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3), that approval will be deemed to have beengiven if the village council have not made a decision on the application within sixty days of the

receipt.



(3) A village council shall, in determining an application under sections 31 and 32–

(a) grant, subject to any conditions which may be prescribed or determined by the village

council; or

(b) refuse,

the application and unless this Act provides otherwise, a failure to make a decision within the

time specified in this section shall operate as a refusal to approve an application.

(4) Where a consent to a grant of a derivative right is refused by a village council or, in the

case of a class B or class C application made under section 32 is not confirmed by the villageassembly or in case a class C application, is not confirmed by the Commissioner, the villagecouncil or as the case may be the Commissioner shall, at the request of the applicant furnish

that applicant with reasons for the refusal or non-confirmation of that application.

34. Duties of grantee of derivative right

(1) A grantee of a derivative right shall pay all the premia, rent, taxes and dues which are

required to be paid in connection with that grant and no such grant shall be valid or effective totransfer any interest in any village land or give rise to any rights in the grantee unless and until

all the premia, rent, taxes and dues have been paid accordingly.

(2) The chairman and secretary of the village council or any other officer of the village

council to whom any premia, rent, taxes or dues are required to be paid under this section shallendorse and sign a receipt for that premium, rent, tax or due on the certificate of the grant of the derivative right.

(3) A grantee of a derivative right shall comply with–

(a) all the terms and conditions subject to which the derivative right has been granted;

(b) all lawful orders issued and all bye-laws made by the village council of the village

having jurisdiction over the land subject to the derivative right or any local or other authority having jurisdiction over land in the area or any orders issued by an officialexercising powers under any Law in the United Republic;

(c) all directives issued to him by any public officer or public body exercising powers under any Act, if the derivative right is a lease for which a class C application was made.

(4) A grantee who does not comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable to suffer

the termination of his derivative right.

35. Surrender of customary right of occupancy by villager

(1) A villager or group of villagers or any other person or persons holding a customary rightof occupancy may, subject to the provisions of this section, at any time surrender the customary



right of occupancy which has been granted to him or them.

(2) A surrender of land held under a customary right of occupancy, whether made in

accordance with customary law or otherwise which has or which it is reasonable to deduce hasits purpose or its effect the depriving, or the placing of impediments in the way of a woman from

occupying land which she would, but for that surrender of land, be entitled to occupy under customary law or otherwise shall not operate and shall be of no effect to prevent that woman

from occupying that land in accordance with customary law or otherwise.

(3) A surrender of land held under a customary right of occupancy, whether made in

accordance with customary law or otherwise which has or which it is reasonable to deduce hasas its purpose or its effect the fraudulent, dishonest or unjust deprivation of a derivativeright-holder of his derivative right shall not be a valid surrender and shall not operate to deprive

that right-holder of his derivative right.

(4) Anybody referred to in subsection (1) who surrender land held under a customary right of occupancy shall remain liable to pay all rent, interest on a loan taken out on the security of thecustomary right of occupancy, taxes, fees and dues owing and due for payment at the time of the surrender of the customary right of occupancy, and–

(a) a village council shall continue to be able to exercise all the powers provided for by this Act to recover rent owned by an occupier of land held for a customary right of

occupancy; and

(b) a lender who has lent money on the security of the customary right of occupancy shall

continue to be able to exercise all the powers of a lender in respect of that loan.

(5) Any person who surrenders a customary right of occupancy shall remain liable for any

breaches of any conditions subject to which the customary right of occupancy was granted andfor breaches of any rules relating to the use of that land which occurred during the occupation

or to the use of the land for which he was responsible up to the time of the surrender of thecustomary right of occupancy.

(6) Where a villager surrenders a customary right of occupancy for reasons of age, infirmity,disability, poverty or other similar grounds, the village council may, take over from that villager the responsibility for paying any debts to which subsection (4) refers.

(7) A surrender of a customary right of occupancy shall be–

(a) made on a prescribed form;

(b) signed by the person or the authorised representatives of the group of persons

surrendering the customary right of occupancy;

(c) accompanied by any evidence which may be prescribed or which is considered by the

village council to be satisfactory that all persons–



(i) dependent on a person who is surrendering that customary right of occupancy areaware of the surrender and have agreed to it;

(ii) having derivative rights in that customary right of occupancy are aware of thesurrender;

(d) any other information which may be prescribed;

(e) send or delivered to the village council of the village where the land is situate.

(8) The Village Council shall make entries prescribed in the register of village land recording

the surrender of customary right of occupancy.

(9) A derivative right granted out of a customary right of occupancy which is surrendered

under this section, shall, as from the date of the surrender, be held on the village council on thesame terms and conditions which it was held on the person who has surrendered the customary

right of occupancy.

36. Regrant of surrendered customary right of occupancy

(1) The regrant of a surrendered customary right of occupancy by a village council shall be inaccordance with the provisions of this Part applicable to the grant of a customary right of

occupancy.

(2) Where the person who has surrendered a customary right of occupancy has dependants,

or if a woman, a spouse and if a man one or more spouses, the village council shall, beforepublicising the fact that the land is available to be granted to any villager or other person to

whom section 22 refers first offer the land to the following persons in the following order, that is

to say–

(a) where the person who has surrendered the customary right of occupancy is a man–

(i) his wife;

(ii) where he has more than one wife, his wives in order of seniority;

(iii) where he has no wife or all wives have declined to accept the offer, his

dependants;

(b) where the person who has surrendered the customary right of occupancy is a woman–

(i) her husband;

(ii) where she has no husband or is divorced from her husband or her husband hasdeclined to accept the offer, her dependants in accordance.

(3) A customary right of occupancy to which this section applies shall be granted to a personother than a person referred to in subsection (2), free of any outstanding debts which may have



burdened the surrendered customary right of occupancy.

37. When breach of condition of customary right of occupancy arises

(1) A breach of a condition requiring continuous performance shall arise as soon andcontinue as long as the condition is not complied with.

(2) A breach of a condition subject to a fixed term shall arise–

(a) in the case of a condition requiring the doing of any act within any time specified and

upon that time being extended by the village council, within that extended time, uponthe expiry of that time without that act having been done;

(b) in the case of a condition requiring any act to be refrained from until any time specifiedin the condition or where that time has been extended by the village council, within thatextended time, upon the doing of that act before that time.

(3) Where any condition consists of two or more separate obligations or liabilities, a failure tofulfil any of those obligations or liabilities shall constitute a breach of the condition.

(4) Where any condition consists of an obligation to comply with regulations made by anylocal or other authority or the lawful orders of a village council having jurisdiction in the area

where the land held for a customary right of occupancy is situated, a failure to comply with anyof those regulations or any lawful order shall constitute a breach of a condition, whether that

failure is made the subject of criminal proceedings or not.

(5) Where any condition consists of an obligation to comply with any rule of customary law

applicable to the land held for a customary right of occupancy, or to the person occupying that

land, a failure to comply with that rule shall constitute a breach of condition.

38. Remedies for breach of condition

(1) Upon any breach of any condition subject to which any customary right of occupancy hasbeen granted, or upon any failure to pay any rent, taxes or other dues, the village council may–

(a) exercise any remedy available under customary law;

(b) impose a fine on an occupier in accordance with section 40;

(c) serve a notice on the occupier in accordance with section 41 requiring the breach to beremedied;

(d) serve a supervision order on the occupier in accordance with section 42;

(e) temporarily assign the customary right of occupancy to another person in accordancewith section 43.

(2) The village council may take action under sections 39 to 43 in respect of the same



breach.

(3) The village council may, at any time, withdraw from taking action under sections 39 to 43.

(4) For purposes of this section and sections 39 to 43, every breach of condition shall be

taken as capable of being remedied, and the action required for remedying any breach shall betaken to consist–

(a) in the case of a positive condition or a requirement in a regulation or order, to do someact or thing, or the doing of any act or thing the omission of which constituted or formed part of the breach;

(b) in the case of a negative condition, or a prohibition in a regulation or order, of the doingof those acts and things which are necessary or which the village council may direct to

be done to put the land into the state in which it would be if the breach had not

occurred.(5) The Commissioner may provide advice, in writing, either generally or to a specific village

on any remedies referred to in this section and all village councils shall have regard to that

advice in so far as it applies to their exercise of power under this section or sections 39 to 43.

(6) Before proceeding to take any action in respect of a breach of a condition of the

customary right of occupancy, the village council shall consider–

(a) the nature and gravity of the breach and whether it could be waived;

(b) the circumstances of the occupier;

(c) whether the condition that has been breached could be remedied so as to obviate the

breach,

and shall in all cases where the village counsel is minded to proceed to take action on a breach,

first issue a warning to the occupier advising him that he is in breach of the conditions of thecustomary right of occupancy and how he may rectify that breach.

39. Remedies in accordance with customary law

(1) Where a village council proposes to exercise any customary law remedy or a breach of acondition imposed under and in accordance with customary law, it shall–

(a) inform the person alleged to have committed the breach of–

(i) the alleged breach;

(ii) the proposed remedy;

(iii) where some act or thing is required to be done, the time, being not less than



twenty-one days, within which it must be done;

(iv) the consequences of a failure to remedy the alleged breach;

(b) give the person alleged to have committed the breach an opportunity, of not less than

fourteen days notice, to make representations on the matter;

(c) take all such representations into account before determining whether to proceed to

exercise a customary law remedy.

(2) A customary law remedy which permits or requires that a person be deprived of his land,

either for a stated period or permanently, shall not take effect unless and until theCommissioner has assented to that remedy.

(3) Where the village council propose to exercise the remedy referred to in subsection (2), itshall–

(a) inform the Commissioner in writing of the proposal and the reasons for it;

(b) provide the Commissioner with any material which was before it, including a summary

of any representations made under paragraph (b) of subsection (1), when itdetermined to exercise that remedy;

(c) provide the Commissioner with any additional information which the Commissioner may, in writing within twenty-one days of the receipt of the information and materialreferred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), require;

(d) not exercise the remedy unless and until the Commissioner has signified, in writing, hisassent to that remedy.

(4) Where a village council is required by the Commissioner to provide additional informationunder paragraph (c) of subsection (3), it shall provide that additional information within forty

days of the receipt of the request from the Commissioner.

(5) The Commissioner shall signify, in writing, that he assents or that he does not assent to

the remedy referred to in subsection (2) within thirty days after he has received all thatinformation which is referred to in subsection (3).

40. Fine for breach of condition

(1) Where any breach of a condition has arisen, the village council may serve a notice in the

prescribed form on the occupier who has committed the breach requiring him to show cause asto why a fine should not be imposed upon him in respect of that breach.

(2) The occupier shall, within the time specified in the notice, respond to the notice.

(3) Where the occupier has not responded to the notice or where he has failed to showcause, to the satisfaction of the village council, as to why a fine should not be imposed, the



village council may serve a notice on the occupier requiring him to pay a fine within any timewhich may be specified in the notice and in the case of a continuing breach, the occupier shall

be liable without further notice to pay a further during which the breach continues.

(4) The Minister may make regulations prescribing fines which may be imposed by a village

council in respect of breach of conditions.

(5) The village council may, where the occupier has not committed any other breach of a

condition of the customary right of occupancy, suspend the payment of any fine of up to twoyears if the occupier does not commit that breach again within the period during which the fine

is suspended, the fine shall lapse and shall no longer be payable.

(6) Where the fine is paid in full, no further action shall be taken by the village council in

respect of that breach.

(7) If the village council is satisfied, after due inquiry, which shall include an opportunity for the occupier to make representations on the matter, that the breach in respect of which a finehas been paid is continuing or has recommenced, it may take action in respect of thatcontinuing or recommenced breach under section 39 or 41 to 43.

41. Summary action to remedy breach of condition

(1) Where any breach of condition has arisen, and it appears to the village council that thebreach is capable of being remedied by the occupier who has committed the breach within a

reasonable time, it may serve a notice in the prescribed form on the occupier specifying theaction required for remedying the breach and requiring the occupier to take that action within

the time specified in the notice.

(2) The occupier on whom a notice under this section is served shall comply strictly with thenotice.

(3) Where a notice served under this section is strictly complied with, no further action shall

be taken by the village council in respect of that breach.

(4) Where it appears to the village council that the notice has not been strictly complied with

or that the breach in respect of which the notice was served is continuing or has recommenced,it shall take action in respect of that continuing or recommenced breach in accordance withsection 42 or 43.

42. Supervision order to remedy breach of condition

(1) Where any breach of condition has arisen and it appears to the village council that theoccupier who has committed the breach is unlikely or is not capable of remedying the breach

unless his use of the land is supervised, it may serve an order, to be known as a "supervisionorder" in the prescribed form on that occupier.



(2) A supervision order shall–

(a) specify the acts or things that must be undertaken to remedy the breach;

(b) the time, being not less than sixty days, within which the acts or things must be

undertaken;

(c) the person, being an officer from–

(i) the village council; or

(ii) another local authority having jurisdiction in the area; or

(iii) a department of government,

who will supervise the undertaking of the acts or things that must be undertaken.

(3) Where the village council is of the opinion that the breach of condition is of such a

severity or of such a technical nature or that the occupier is unlikely to comply with any ordersof an officer of the village council that an officer referred to in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (2) should supervise the remedying of the breach, it shall–

(a) inform that local authority or department of Government of the facts of the case;

(b) request that local authority or department of government to provide an officer tosupervise the remedying of the breach; and

(c) take no further action on the matter unless and until it is informed that an officer referred to in paragraph (b) has been authorised to exercise the functions of

supervision under this section.

(4) A local authority or government department shall, on receipt of a request referred to inparagraph (b) of subsection (3), inform the village council as soon as may be as to whether it

will or will not accede to the request and authorise an officer to exercise the functions of supervision.

(5) Where a local authority or government department informs the village council that it willnot accede to the request referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (3), the village council mayeither–

(a) authorise an officer employed by the village council to exercise the functions of supervision; or

(b) withdraw from taking action under this section and take–

(i) no further action; or

(ii) action under sections 39 to 42 or 43.



(6) At the end of the period referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) or any longer period which may be agreed to by the village council, the supervising officer shall report to the

village council on whether the occupier has completed the acts or things which he was requiredto undertake by the supervision order.

(7) Where the report of the supervising officer is to the effect that–

(a) the occupier has completed the acts or things required to be undertaken, the village

council shall take no further action under the supervision order;

(b) the occupier has not completed the acts or things required to be undertaken, the

village council shall either–

(i) extend the operation of the supervision order for any period which it considers

necessary to ensure compliance with the order; or

(ii) take action under section 42.

(8) The provisions of subsection (6) shall apply to a supervision order extended under theprovisions of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (7).

(9) Where it appears to the village council that the breach in respect of which a supervisionorder was served has recommenced, it shall either–

(a) reactivate the supervision order and the provisions of this section shall apply to anyreactivated order;

(b) take action under section 43.

43. Temporary assignment of customary right of occupancy on account of breach of condition

(1) Where any breach of condition has arisen and it appears to the village council that,notwithstanding any action taken against the occupier in breach of those conditions under sections 39 to 42, the breach is–

(a) seriously affecting the sustainable productivity of the land; or

(b) seriously harming the land of persons occupying land contiguous to the land where thebreach is taking place; or

(c) continuing on account of the continued refusal or neglect of the occupier to undertake

the necessary acts or things to remedy the breach,

the village council may determine to take action in respect of that breach under this section.

(2) Where the village council determines to take action under this section, it shall–



(a) inform the Commissioner of–

(i) all the facts of the case;

(ii) the actions the village council has hitherto taken to remedy the breach;

(iii) the reasons why action under this section is necessary;

(b) request the authorisation of the Commissioner to proceed under this section;

(c) take no further action unless and until it receives an authorisation to proceed from theCommissioner.

(3) On receipt of the information and request under subsection (2), the Commissioner–

(a) may direct the village council to send any further information within any time which is

specified in the direction;

(b) shall within forty days of the receipt of the information and request under subsection(2) or the receipt of further information under paragraph (a), send or deliver to thevillage council a notice in writing either–

(i) authorising action to be taken under this section; or

(ii) forbidding action to be taken under this section.

(4) A village council shall comply with any directive or notice received from the

Commissioner under subsection (3).

(5) Where a village council has been authorised to proceed under this section, it shall serve

a notice, to be known as a `notice of temporary assignment' in the prescribed form on theoccupier referred to in subsection (1) requiring him to show cause as to why his customary rightof occupancy should not be assigned to another person ordinarily residing in the village for a

specified period of time.

(6) The occupier who has been served with a notice of temporary assignment shall respond

to that notice, either in person or through a representative within the time specified in the notice,and may adduce any evidence which he considers necessary to enable him to show cause asto why a temporary assignment of his customary right of occupancy should not take place.

(7) Where the occupier has not responded to the notice or has failed to show cause, to thesatisfaction of the village council as to why a temporary assignment of his customary right of

occupancy should not take place, the village council shall serve on that occupier an order, to beknown as a `conditional order of temporary assignment' in the prescribed form.

(8) A conditional order of temporary assignment shall–

(a) specify the length of time, being a period of not less than one year nor more than for



the duration of the life of the occupier, for which his customary right of occupancy is tobe temporarily assigned;

(b) state the name of the person or persons to whom the customary right of occupancy isto be temporarily assigned;

(c) set out the rights and duties of the person against whom the order is being made inrelation to the assignee;

(d) specify the date, being not less than sixty days from the date of the conditional order,on which the village council will apply to the court for the conditional order to be made

absolute.

(9) The persons to whom a temporary assignment of a customary right of occupancy shall

be made and the order in which they shall be offered that temporary assignment are–

(a) where the occupier has a spouse living with the occupier and working on the land, thatspouse;

(b) where the occupier is a man and has more than one spouse living with him and

working on the land, those spouses as joint occupiers without the power to sever the joint occupancy;

(c) where the occupier has no spouse or if a man spouses, living with that occupier andworking on the land, or the spouse, as the case may be, all the spouses decline totake the customary right of occupancy on a temporary assignment, those of the adult

dependants of the occupier living with that occupier and working on the land as jointoccupier without the power to sever the joint occupancy;

(d) where there are no persons in the categories set out in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) or allthose persons have declined to take the customary right of occupancy on a temporary

assignment, not more than two of the persons who may be a brother, half-brother,sister or half-sister to the occupier, who are ordinarily residing in the village as jointoccupiers without the power to sever the joint occupancy;

(e) where there are no persons in the categories set out in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d),or all those persons have declined to take the customary right of occupancy on a

temporary assignment, not less than two or more than four villagers, who shall be fromthe same clan as the occupier nominated by the village council and approved by the

Commissioner as joint occupiers without the power to sever the joint occupancy.

(10) Any person who takes a temporary assignment of a customary right of occupancy shall

act as and shall be deemed to be, in relation to the land which is the subject to the temporaryassignment, a trustee of that land, the beneficiary of which is the person from whom thetemporary assignment has been taken.



(11) A person shall not be disqualified from taking a temporary assignment of a customaryright of occupancy under this section only on the grounds that by so doing, he would be

occupying land in excess of the prescribed maximum for that village.

(12) Any person may make an application to a court having jurisdiction over land matters to

make a conditional order of temporary assignment absolute that court shall consider the matter de novo and hear the occupier and the village council and may–

(a) make absolute the order specified by the village council;

(b) amend the order specified by the village council and make that amended order

absolute;

(c) suspend the operation of the order for a specified period;

(d) substitute an alternative remedy for the order;

(e) dismiss the application and rule that the order be discharged;

(f) make any ancillary order which appear to the court to be just and proper in all the

circumstances of the case.

(13) An order of temporary assignment absolute shall, without more, operate as an

assignment of the customary right of occupancy to which it refers to the assignee or assigneesnamed in the order.

(14) A village council shall–

(a) hold that customary right of occupancy on the same terms and conditions as the

occupier who, prior to the assignment, held that customary right of occupancy;

(b) have no power to assign that customary right of occupancy;

(c) where the former occupier wishes to continue to reside on the land–

(i) grant that former occupier a residential licence to reside on the land subject to any

terms and conditions which the village council shall approve or which may beprescribed;

(ii) provide that former occupier with sufficient income for him to be able to meet hisbasic needs;

(d) apply any surplus income derived from the land in the following order to–

(i) paying any taxes or other public imposts owned by the former holder of the

customary right of occupancy;

(ii) repairing any damage done to the land by the former holder of the customary right



of occupancy;

(iii) meeting any obligations which the former holder of the customary right of

occupancy has to his family which he has not met or is not meeting;

(iv) paying the residue to the former holder of the right of occupancy.

44. Revocation of customary right of occupancy

(1) The President may revoke a customary right of occupancy granted to a non-village

organisation or a group of persons not being villagers.

(2) The provisions of sections 46 and 47 of the Land Act *(48), which relates to fines for

breach of condition and to summary action to remedy breach of condition of customer right of occupancy respectively shall, as near as may be, apply to the revocation of a customary right of occupancy as they apply to the revocation of a granted right of occupancy provided for in those

sections.

(3) The Commissioner may direct the village council of the village where the land held of a

customary right of occupancy which may be revoked is situate to give him any information anddocuments and take any action in any time which may be specified in the direction, being not

less than forty days, to enable him to exercise his functions under sections 46 and 47 of theLand Act *(49), in relation to that customary right of occupancy.

(4) A village council in receipt of which the directive is referred to in subsection (3) shallcomply with that directive in every particular.

45. Abandonment of land held for a customary right of occupancy

(1) Land held for a customary right of occupancy shall be taken to be abandoned where oneor more of the following factors are present:

(a) The occupier has not occupied or used the land for any purpose for which land maylawfully be occupied and used, including allowing land to lie fallow, in the village for not

less than five years;

(b) the occupier, other than a villager whose principal means of livelihood is agricultural or

pastoral, owes any rent, taxes or dues on or in respect of the land and has continuedto owe that rent, taxes or dues or any portion of it for not less than two years from thedate on which that rent, taxes or dues or any portion of it first fell to be paid;

(c) the occupier has left the country without making any arrangement for any person to beresponsible for the land and for ensuring that the conditions subject to which the

customary right of occupancy was granted are complied with and has not given anyappropriate notification to the village council.

(2) In determining whether land has been abandoned in terms of paragraph (a) and (b) of



subsection (1), regard shall be had to–

(a) the means of the occupier of the land, and where the occupier is an individual, the age

and physical condition of the occupier;

(b) the weather conditions in the area during the preceding three years;

(c) any customary practices, particularly practices amongst pastoralists which may have

contributed to the non-use of the land during the preceding three years;

(d) any advice on the matter sought by the village council or given to it by the

Commissioner.

(3) Land shall not be taken to be abandoned under subsection (1) where a spouse or

dependants of the occupier are occupying and using that land, notwithstanding that theoccupier–

(a) is not and has not for not less than three years occupied or used that land; or

(b) owes, in accordance with paragraph (b) of that subsection any rent, taxes, fees or

dues on that land; or

(c) has not specifically appointed a spouse or a dependant to manage the land in his

absence.

(4) Where a village council considers that any village land held for a customary right of

occupancy has been abandoned, it shall publish a notice in the prescribed form at the offices of the village council and affix a copy of the notice in a prominent place on that land–

(a) stating that the question of whether that land has been abandoned will be consideredby the village council at a time which shall be not less than thirty days from the date of the publication of the notice;

(b) inviting any person in the village with an interest in that land to show cause as to whythat land should not be declared to be abandoned.

(5) A copy of a notice referred to in subsection (3) shall be sent to the Commissioner whoshall be entitled to make representations to the village council on the matter.

(6) Where either no person interested in the land has shown cause or a person interested inthe land has shown cause to the satisfaction of the village council as to why the land should not

be declared to be abandoned, the village council may make an order, to be known as a'provisional order of abandonment' in the prescribed form declaring the land to be abandoned.

(7) A copy of a provisional order of abandonment shall be–

(a) posted up in the offices of the village council;



(b) affixed in a prominent place on the land to which it refers;

(c) sent to the Commissioner.

(8) A provisional order of abandonment shall, without more, unless a person claiming an

interest in the land applies to the court for relief against that order, become a final order of abandonment ninety days from the date of the declaration of the provisional order.

(9) On the coming into effect of a final order of abandonment–

(a) the customary right of occupancy in the land which has thereby been declared to be

abandoned, shall immediately and without further action being required stand revoked;and

(b) the land which has been declared to be abandoned shall, immediately and without anyfurther action being required, revert back to land held by the village council as

available for allocation to persons ordinarily resident in the village.

(10) The village council shall, on a claim being made within sixty days of the coming intoeffect of a final order of abandonment by an occupier of land declared by that final order to be

abandoned, on being satisfied by that claim, pay compensation for any unexhaustedimprovements on that land at the time of the coming into effect of the final order, but shall,

where the occupier is an individual after taking account of the means, age and physicalcondition of that occupier, deduct from any payment or compensation–

(a) all the costs incurred by the village council in the process of declaring the land to be

abandoned, including any costs incurred in any action in court where a person claimingan interest in the land is applying for relief from a provisional order;

(b) all the costs incurred in restoring the land or any buildings on the land to the conditionthat it would be reasonable to expect they should have been in if they had not been

abandoned,

any rent, taxes, fees or other dues owing and not paid by the occupier.

(11) A village council shall record a provisional and a final order of abandonment in theregister of village land.

46. Application for relief

(1) An occupier referred to in sections 39 to 45 may apply to a Court having jurisdiction for

relief against any of the actions, notices, orders, or declarations which may be made againsthim by the village council or the Commissioner under any of those sections.

(2) Where the effect of an action, notice, order or declaration made under any of the referred

sections adversely affects any other person with an interest in land of the occupier againstwhom the action, notice, order or declaration has been made, that other person may, with leave



of the court, apply for relief against so much of the action, notice, order or declaration thataffects him.

(3) Where an application is made by one or more but not all co-occupiers, then unless thecourt orders otherwise, that application must be served on every co-occupier who is not already

a party.

(4) An application for relief is not to be taken as an admission by the occupier or any other

person applying for relief that–

(a) there has been a breach of condition or an abandonment of land in respect of which

the action, notice order or declaration has been served;

(b) by reason of that breach or abandonment, the village council or Commissioner has the

right to revoke the customary right of occupancy or make a declaration of

abandonment;(c) all notices which were required to be served by the village council were properly

served;

(d) a period for remedying the breach was reasonable.

(5) A court may grant any relief against the operation of an action, notice, order, or

declaration which the circumstances of the case require and without limiting the generality of that power, may–

(a) cancel that notice, order or declaration;

(b) vary the operation of that action, notice, order or declaration;

(c) postpone the operation of that notice, order or declaration;

(d) substitute a different remedy for the one determined upon by the village council or

Commissioner;

(e) confirm the action, notice, order, or declaration made, notwithstanding that some

procedural errors took place during the making of that action, notice, order or declaration if the court is satisfied that–

(i) the occupier or other person applying for relief was made fully aware of thesubstance of the action, notice, order or declaration; and

(ii) no injustice will be done by confirming that action, notice, order or declaration,

and may grant that relief on any condition as to expenses, damages, compensation or any

other relevant matter which the court thinks fit.



47. Appeals

(1) An applicant for–

(a) the grant of a customary right of occupancy; or

(b) approval to the assignment of a customary right of occupancy;

(c) approval to any disposition of a derivative right which requires consent;

(d) the grant of a derivative right by a village council,

who is refused that grant or approval by a village council or where that grant or approval

requires the confirmation or approval of the village assembly, is refused that confirmation or approval may appeal against that refusal to the District Council having jurisdiction over wherethe land the subject of appeal is situate and may further appeal to the Commissioner and

further to the Court.

C : A d ju d ic a tio n o f In te re s t in L a n d (ss 48-59)

48. Application of this Subpart

Except where the boundaries of and interest in land is registered under any law applicable tothe registration of village land, or notwithstanding such registration, the boundaries andinterests in land are fully accepted and agreed to by all persons with an interest in that land and

in respect of the boundaries of that land and land bordering that land, no grant of a customaryright of occupancy shall be made to any person, group of persons or non-village organisation

unless and until the boundaries of and interest in that land have been adjudicated inaccordance with the provisions of this Subpart.

49. Spot adjudication

(1) A person, group of persons or non-village organisation may, on making an application toa village council for a customary right of occupancy, apply, on a prescribed form to that villagecouncil for adjudication, to be known as "spot adjudication" to be applied to that land in respect

of which they have applied for a customary right of occupancy.

(2) The village council shall determine whether spot adjudication may be applied to the land

in respect of which it has been requested or whether it is necessary, in order for adjudication tobe applied to land in a proper and just manner, to apply adjudication to land contiguous to or in

the vicinity of the land for which adjudication has been requested.

(3) Where the village council determines that spot adjudication may be applied to the land, it

shall commence the process of adjudication in respect of that land.

(4) Where the village council determines that it is necessary to apply adjudication to land

contiguous to and in the vicinity of the land for which adjudication has been requested, it shall–



(a) submit the determination in the form of a recommendation to the village assembly for its approval;

(b) inform the District Council having jurisdiction over that village of the determination andthe reasons for it;

(c) inform the applicants of the determination and the reasons for it.

(5) Where, either–

(a) a village assembly rejects the recommendation of the village council submitted to it

under paragraph (a) of subsection (3); or

(b) an applicant for adjudication submits an objection, in writing, to the determination to

the village council,

that village council shall report that rejection or as the case may be send a copy of thatobjection to the District Council having jurisdiction over that village.

(6) The District Council may, if that considers that spot adjudication ought to be applied to

land for which it has been requested, notwithstanding the determination by the village councilmade under subsection (2), after taking account of the rejection by the village assembly of, or the objection by an applicant for spot adjudication to that determination by the village council,

direct that village council to apply spot adjudication to the land of the applicant.

(7) A village council shall comply with a directive issued to it by the district council under this

section.

50. Village or district adjudication

(1) Adjudication shall be either–

(a) village adjudication; or

(b) district adjudication.

(2) The responsibility for village adjudication is hereby vested in the village council and shall

be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this section or section 54.

(3) The responsibility for central adjudication is hereby vested in the District Council and shall

be conducted in accordance with the provisions of section 56.

(4) Where a complaint is made to the district council by not less than twenty persons withinterests in land to which village adjudication is being applied that the village adjudication isbeing applied improperly or unfairly, the district council shall investigate the complaint and onbeing satisfied of the accuracy of the complaint, the district council shall–

(a) issue any directive which it considers necessary to the village council to correct and



improve the process of village adjudication; or

(b) issue a directive to the village council to–

(i) cease exercising any powers under the process of village adjudication;

(ii) send all records and other information specified in the directive to the districtcouncil;

(iii) cooperate fully with any officers whom the district council shall authorise to applycentral adjudication to the land to which village adjudication was being applied.

(5) The issuing of a directive under paragraph (b) of subsection (4) shall operate to–

(a) terminate forthwith village adjudication;

(b) apply central adjudication,

to the land to which village adjudication was being applied.

(6) Where central adjudication has been applied to land under subsection (5), the district

council shall thereupon be empowered to–

(a) re-examine;

(b) cancel;

(c) revise;

(d) add to;

(e) make any other decisions which seem just on,

any determination made by any person or body in the village in connection with village

adjudication of that land.

51. Determination to apply village adjudication

(1) A village council may, either of its own motion and shall, on the application of not less

than fifty villagers, recommend to the village assembly that a process of village adjudication beapplied to the whole or a defined portion of village land available for grants of customary rightsof occupancy.

(2) A recommendation made under this section shall–

(a) contain a brief statement of reasons for the recommendation;

(b) specify the approximate area of land to which it is proposed to apply village



adjudication;

(c) summarise the procedures to be followed in the process of village adjudication;

(d) be posted in a public place within the village and explained to villagers so that the

members of the village assembly may have notice of the recommendation not lessthan fourteen days before the meeting of the village assembly which is to vote on therecommendation;

(e) be copied to the Commissioner.

(3) Where the village assembly approves a recommendation made under this section, thevillage council shall, as soon as may be after that, begin the process of village adjudication.

(4) A refusal by the village assembly to approve a recommendation of the village councilshall not operate to bar any villager or group of villagers from applying for spot adjudication to

be applied to land in respect of which any of those persons have applied for a customary rightof occupancy.

52. Appointment and functions of village adjudication adviser

(1) Where a village assembly has approved a recommendation that a village adjudication

process shall take place, the village council of that village shall appoint a villager–

(a) known and respected for his knowledge of and impartial judgment about land matters

in that village;

(b) qualified in a prescribed discipline or profession; or

(c) any public servant appointed by the Commissioner at the request of the village council,to act as a village adjudication adviser; or

(d) an official with responsibilities for land matters of a local authority having jurisdiction inthe area where the land to be adjudicated is situate; or

(e) a magistrate appointed by the Judicial Service Commissioner at the request of thevillage council to act as a village adjudication adviser.

(2) A village adjudication adviser shall be responsible to the village adjudication committeeand shall assist that committee to implement and manage the village adjudication process and

without limiting the generality of that function, shall–

(a) carry out any lawful orders and directions from the village adjudication committee onany matters connected with the village adjudication process which appear to thecommittee to be necessary;

(b) draw to the attention of the committee any error or omission in any adjudication



register at any time before it is completed;

(c) make a claim or otherwise act on behalf of any person who is absent or under a

disability if he considers it necessary to avoid injustice;

(d) attempt to resolve any dispute concerning the boundaries of or interests in land arisingout of the village adjudication process through conciliation before it is referred to avillage adjudication committee;

(e) conduct any inquiries which he may be directed to conduct by the committee toimplement a village adjudication process.

53. Village adjudication committee

(1) Where a village assembly which has approved a recommendation that a villageadjudication process shall take place, the village council shall establish a village adjudication

committee, the members of which shall be elected by the village assembly.

(2) A village adjudication committee shall consist of not less than six nor more than nine

persons, of whom not less than three persons shall be women, who shall serve for a term of three years and shall be eligible to be re-elected for one further term of three years.

(3) The functions of a village adjudication committee shall be to–

(a) determine the boundaries of and interest in land which is the subject of a village

adjudication;

(b) set aside or made reservations of land or demarcate rights of way and other

easements which it considers necessary for the more beneficial occupation of land;

(c) adjudicate upon and decide in accordance with customary law any question referred to

it by any person with an interest in land which is the subject of a village adjudication;

(d) advise the village adjudication adviser or any person subordinate to him who is

assisting in the village adjudication process upon any question of customary law as towhich its guidance has been sought;

(e) safeguard the interests of women, absent persons, minors and persons under adisability;

(f) take account of any interest in land in respect of which for any reason, no claim has

been made.(4) Each village adjudication committee shall elect one of its members to be chairman who

shall preside at all meetings at which he is present; and if at any meeting the chairman is

absent, the members present shall elect one of themselves to preside over that meeting.

(5) The quorum of a village adjudication committee shall, where the number of the



committee is six members, be four, of which at least two members shall be women and wherethe number of the committee is greater than six members, be five, of which at least two

members shall be women.

(6) In the event of an equality of votes, the chairman or other member presiding shall have a

casting vote as well as an original vote.

(7) Any decision of a village adjudication committee shall be signed by the chairman or other

member presiding and the village adjudication adviser.

(8) the village adjudication adviser shall be the executive officer for the village adjudication

committee and shall keep the records of the committee.

(9) The village adjudication committee shall in the exercise of any of its powers under this

section which involve a hearing comply with the rules of natural justice and, subject to that duty,

may–(a) hear evidence which would not be admissible in a court of law;

(b) call evidence of its own motion;

(c) use evidence contained in any official record or adduced in any other claim; and

(d) generally, determine its own procedures.

(10) A village adjudication committee shall have jurisdiction over all claims made during the

course of a village adjudication process and for this purpose and in order to discharge thefunctions referred to in subsection (3), the chairman of that committee shall be legallycompetent to administer oaths and to issue summonses, notices and orders requiring the

attendance of any persons and the production of any documents which he may consider necessary for the carrying out of the village adjudication.

54. Procedures for village adjudication

(1) The chairman of a village adjudication committee shall be responsible for ensuring thatthe procedures set out in this section and any other procedures that may be prescribed are

complied with.

(2) Where village adjudication is to be applied to village land or a portion of that land, a

notice shall be published and posted in a prominent place in the village and on the land which isto be adjudicated–

(a) specifying the approximate area of land to be adjudicated (the adjudication area);

(b) requiring all persons who claim any interest in the land to attend a meeting of the

village adjudication committee at a specified time and put forward their claims;

(c) requiring any person who claims to occupy land within the adjudication area to mark or



indicate the boundaries of the land in the manner and before the date which may bespecified by the notice.

(3) On the specified date, the village adjudication committee shall hear and determine allclaims made under paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (2).

(4) The village adjudication committee may adjourn any hearing into any claim and direct thevillage adjudication adviser to conduct further investigations into that claim.

(5) In hearing and determining any claim, the village adjudication committee shall use itsbest endeavours to mediate between and reconcile parties having conflicting claims to the land.

(6) The village adjudication committee shall cause to be prepared a provisional adjudicationrecord in the prescribed manner of the claims to the adjudicated land which it has determined

under subsection (3) and shall post that record in a prominent place within the village.

(7) A provisional adjudication record shall, unless an appeal is made under the provisions of section 55, become a final adjudication record thirty days after it has been published and shallthereupon become a part of the register of village land.

(8) A provisional adjudication record shall, where any appeal has been made under section55, become a final adjudication record thirty days after the final disposition of that appeal.

55. Appeals

(1) Any person who is aggrieved by a determination of a village adjudication committee may,within thirty days of the publication of the adjudication record, appeal to the village land council

against that determination.

(2) The village land council shall, in hearing any appeal–

(a) have all the powers and comply with all the procedures applicable to a villageadjudication committee; and

(b) reach any decision which appears to it to be just in all the circumstances, and, withoutlimiting the generality of that power, may–

(i) amend the adjudication record;

(ii) correct any error in the adjudication record;

(iii) direct that the village adjudication adviser conduct further investigations into the

subject matter of the appeal.

(4) Where the village land council proposes to make a decision which may adversely affectthe interests of any person in the adjudication area who has not appealed, the panel shall give

that person an opportunity to be heard before it shall make that decision.



(5) Any applicant or person referred to in subsection (4) aggrieved by a decision of thevillage land council given under this section may, with the leave of the district land court, appeal

to that court against that decision and the court may make any decision or order which itconsiders just in all the circumstances and to that end may make any rectification of the

provisional adjudication record which it considers will achieve a just result.

56. District adjudication

(1) Where the District Council has issued a directive under paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of

section 50 or where a village assembly has determined that district adjudication shall be appliedto land within the village, the provisions of this section shall apply to the process of districtadjudication.

(2) The District Council shall appoint a public officer to be an adjudication officer for thatvillage land, and that officer shall be in charge of and shall exercise general supervision and

control over the adjudication process and without limiting the generality of that power, thatofficer may–

(a) where a village adjudication adviser has been appointed–

(i) give that adviser orders and directives which that adviser shall comply with;

(ii) dispense with the services of that adviser;

(b) where a village adjudication committee has been elected–

(i) appoint further members to that committee;

(ii) remove all or any elected members from that committee;

(iii) arrange for the election of new members to that committee by the village

assembly;

(iv) nominate a chairman of the committee who will replace the chairman elected by

that committee;

(v) appoint an executive officer for the committee who will replace a village

adjudication adviser;

(c) where a village adjudication committee has not been elected, appoint a village

adjudication committee the composition, powers and procedures of which shall, with

the exception of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) of section 53 comply with theprovisions of that section;

(d) exercise those powers of the village adjudication committee–

(i) to the exclusion of that committee, set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection



(3) of section 53; and

(ii) in conjunction with that committee set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection

(3) of section 53;

(e) refer any matter to a village adjudication committee for its opinion;

(f) exercise, to the exclusion of the chairman of a village adjudication committee, the

responsibility for ensuring compliance with subsection (2) of section 57;

(g) exercise, to the exclusion of a village adjudication committee, the powers set out in

subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 54, and accordingly substitute a reference tohimself for a reference to a village adjudication committee in a notice published under subsection (2) of section 54;

(h) prepare, to the exclusion of a village adjudication committee, the provisional

adjudication record under subsection (6) of section 54;

(i) issue any orders to any officer subordinate to him and to a village adjudicationcommittee which he thinks necessary for the carrying out of the process of

adjudication;

(j) at any time before a provisional adjudication record becomes final, correct any error or

supply any omission occurring in that provisional record.

(3) An adjudication officer shall have jurisdiction in all claims made under a process of

central adjudication relating to interests in land in an adjudication area, with power to determineany question that needs to be determined in connection with any claims and for that purpose he

shall be legally competent to administer oaths and to issue summonses, notices or ordersrequiring the attendance of any persons or the production of any documents which he mayconsider necessary for the carrying out of that adjudication.

(4) Any person who has made a claim under a process of district adjudication who isaggrieved by any act or decision of an adjudication officer done or taken under the process of

district adjudication may, within thirty days of the publication of a provisional adjudicationrecord, appeal to the Commissioner and may further appeal to the High Court.

(5) On any appeal which is made under subsection (4), the court may make any decision or order which it may consider just in all the circumstances and to that end it may make anyrectification of the provisional adjudication record which it considers necessary to achieve a just

result.

(6) The provisions of subsections (7) and (8) of section 54 shall apply to a provisional

adjudication record prepared by an adjudication officer under this section.

57. Principles of adjudication



(1) In preparing the provisional adjudication record, a village adjudication committee, or asthe case may be, an adjudication officer, if it or he is satisfied that–

(a) a person is and has been or his predecessor in title was in peaceable, open anduninterrupted occupation of village land under customary law for not less than twelve

years, shall determine that person to be entitled to a customary right of occupancy;

(b) a person is in occupation of village land allocated to him or his predecessor in title

during Operation Vijiji, shall determine that person to be entitled to a customary right of occupancy;

(c) a group of persons are and have been in peaceable, open and uninterruptedoccupation of or have similarly used the village land for pastoral purposes for not less

that twelve years, shall determine that group of persons to be entitled to a customaryright of occupancy over that land;

(d) a group of persons are in occupation of or have been using for pastoral purposes,village land allocated to them during Operation Vijiji, shall determine that group of persons to be entitled to a customary right of occupancy over that land;

(e) a person or group of persons are in peaceable, open and uninterrupted occupation of land or are similarly using the land under an arrangement or as a result of a

transaction whether under customary law or any written law relating to land, andwhether that occupation can be evidenced by a document in writing or not which doesnot fall within any of the above categories of land occupancy, shall determine the

nature, incidents and extent of that occupancy and declare that person or group of persons to occupy that land under the type of occupancy so determined, whether it be

a customary right of occupancy or a derivative right;(f) a person or group of persons or a non-village organisation are in occupation of or are

using village land without any right or interest so to be, shall determine those personsor non-village organisation to be unauthorised occupiers, permitted to remain on theland temporarily as licensees;

(g) a person or group of persons are entitled to an interest in village land, whether under customary law or otherwise, not amounting to occupation under customary law, or

under a derivative right, shall determine the nature, incidents and extent of thoseinterests to enable it to be recorded in the name of the person or group or persons

entitled to benefit from it;

(h) the village land is entirely free of any occupation or use or any right of occupation or use by any person or group of persons, shall determine that land to be communalvillage land;

(i) the village land is entirely free of any occupation or use by any person or group of



persons shall determine that land to be communal land;

(j) the land alleged to be village land is not village land, shall declare that land to be

general land.

(2) In making any determinations under subsection (3), a village adjudication committee or as the case may be an adjudication officer shall have regard treat the rights of women and therights of pastoralists to occupy or use or have interest in land not less favourably than the rights

of men or agriculturalists to occupy or use or have interests in land.

(3) In determining whether occupations of land has been peaceable, open and

uninterrupted–

(a) no account shall be taken of any order, declaration or scheme issued or made under

the Town and Country Planning Act *(50), which purports to alter, amend or add to the

incidents of any deemed right of occupancy or other right to occupy land of any personso as to render any aspect of that occupation unlawful;

(b) a person occupying land in an urban or peri-urban area at the will or sufferance of or

as a trespasser (relative to a person or organisation having a title to that land) butwhose occupation is recognised and accepted as being in accordance with thecustoms of the community of which he is a part, shall be deemed to be in peaceable

open and uninterrupted occupation of that land;

(c) it shall not be necessary that occupation be continuous provided that when land is not

occupied by a person or group of persons claiming peaceable, open and uninterruptedoccupation of that land, it is not occupied by any other person or group of personsclaiming peaceable open and uninterrupted occupation.

(4) A village adjudication committee or an adjudication officer may record that two or morepersons or groups of persons are co-occupiers and users of land, whether those persons or

groups of persons have claimed to be co-occupiers or are disputing occupation or use of thatland and where that determination is made, the committee or adjudication officer as the case

may be, shall determine and record the nature, incidents and extent of that co-occupation andwhether those persons and group of persons are joint occupiers or occupiers in common asprovided for in Part XIII of the Land Act *(51), relating to co-occupancy whose rights between

themselves are governed by customary law.

(5) References to "land" in this section are to land the boundaries of which have been

agreed to by the parties claiming an interest in that land and contiguous land or have, in the

absence of that agreement, been determined by a village adjudication committee or anadjudication officer.

(6) Where a provisional adjudication record has been completed, it shall be signed by the

Chairman and executive officer of the village adjudication committee and by each person or anauthorised representative of each person or group of persons or non-village organisation whose



interests in land have been adjudicated.

58. Land sharing arrangements between pastoralists and agriculturalists

(1) Where, in respect of any land the subject of adjudication, the village adjudicationcommittee or, as the case may be, the adjudication officer is satisfied that there is a dual use of

the land between groups of persons using the land for pastoral purposes and groups of personsusing the land for agricultural purposes and that both groups claim to be using that land inaccordance with customary law applicable to their respective uses, the committee or, as the

case may be the adjudication officer shall–

(a) determine and record the nature, extent and incidents of each use and so far as it is

possible to do so, the length of time that each group has used or claimed the use of that land for their respective uses;

(b) where the village adjudication committee or the adjudication officer is satisfied that thegroups of persons so using the land have in the past and are likely to continue in thefuture to carry out their respective uses of the land in co-operation with each other, he

or as the case may be it prepare an arrangement for that continued dual use whichrecords–

(i) the rights to the use and occupation of the land by each group as recognised byeach group; and

(ii) the arrangements for resolving any disputes between the dual uses adopted andused by those groups;

(c) where the village adjudication Committee or an adjudicating officer or he is satisfied

that the groups of persons using the land are in continuous dispute about the uses of the land, it or he as the case may be, shall–

(i) record the rights to the use and occupation of the land claimed by each group; and

(ii) prepare a draft sharing arrangement for the continued dual use of the land either for a limited period or indefinitely based on the claimed uses of the land modified

so as to reduce the likelihood of disputes; and

(iii) discuss the arrangement with each group of persons or their representatives with

a view to obtaining their agreement to the said arrangement or the saidarrangement modified to take account of the views of those groups their representatives; and

(iv) adopt the draft arrangement as a scheme.

(2) An arrangement prepared or adopted under subsection (1) shall be known as a "landsharing arrangement" and shall provide–



(a) for each group using the land to which it relates, rights to the occupation and use of that land based on the provisions on easements and analogous rights and on

co-occupancy contained in Parts XI and XII of the Land Act *(52), respectively;

(b) arrangements for the resolution by a joint mediation panel composed of equal

members of each group, of disputes about the rights so provided for by the scheme.

(3) A land sharing arrangement may, notwithstanding the provisions of Part XI of the Land

Act *(53), provide that different groups of persons may occupy or use different parts of the landthe subject of the scheme exclusively for specified purposes or for a specified period.

(4) A land sharing arrangement shall be registered in the Village Land Registry and in theDistrict Land Registry.

59. Staying of suits

(1) Except with the consent of the chairman of the village adjudication committee or wherecentral adjudication is taking place, of the adjudication officer, no person shall institute any civil

action or proceedings of any kind concerning land or any interest in land which is the subject of an adjudication process until the adjudication record is final.

(2) Where any action or proceedings has begun before the publication of a notice under section 51 or section 54, they shall be discontinued unless the Chairman of the villageadjudication committee or, as the case may be, the adjudication officer, having regard to the

stage which the action of proceedings have reached, otherwise directs.

(3) Any persons who is aggrieved by a refusal of the Chairman of the village adjudication

committee or, as the case may be, the adjudication officer to give his consent under subsection

(1) or make a direction under subsection (2), within fourteen days of the refusal, may appeal tothe village land council against that refusal and may further appeal to the Court having jurisdiction over land matters.

PART V

DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (ss 60-62)

60. Village land council

(1) For the purposes of this Part, every village shall establish a village land council tomediate between and assist parties to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution on any matter

concerning village land.

(2) Where a village council establishes a village land council, that council shall consist of notless than five nor more than seven persons, of which not less than two shall be women, whoshall be–

(a) nominated by the village council; and



(b) approved by the village assembly.

(3) Where a person is not approved as a member of village land council or, a member of a

Council resigns dies or falls within one of the categories set out in subsection (4), the villagecouncil shall nominate another person to be a member of the village land council and that

person shall be required to be approved in accordance with subsection (2).

(4) In determining persons to be nominated as members of the village land council, a village

council shall have regard to the standing and reputation of a nominee in the village as a personof integrity and with knowledge of customary land law.

(5) No person shall be eligible to be nominated as a member of the village land council or continue as a member of a traditional Elders Council if he is–

(a) not ordinarily resident in the village in which the village land council is to function;

(b) a member of the National Assembly;

(c) a magistrate having jurisdiction in the district in which the village council is to functionis situate;

(d) a person under the apparent age of eighteen years;

(e) a mentally unfit person;

(f) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence involving dishonesty or moral

turpitude;

(g) a person who is not a citizen.

(6) A person who falls within one of the categories set out in subsection (5) while serving asa member of the village land council shall automatically cease to be a member of that Councilbut where that person was acting as a mediator in any case, then, except where the provisions

of paragraphs (e) or (f) of subsection (5) apply that person may continue to act as a mediator inthat case until the process of mediation has been concluded.

(7) A member of an appointed village land council shall, unless he sooner resigns, dies or falls within a category set out in subsection (5), serve for three years and shall be eligible for

reappointment which shall comply with the provisions of subsections (2) and (3).

(8) An appointed village land council shall elect one of its members to be convener of the

Council who shall keep the records of the Council and preside at all meetings at which he ispresent; and if at any meeting the convener is absent, the members present shall elect one of themselves to preside at that meeting.

(9) The quorum of a meeting of the village land council shall be four persons, of which atleast one shall be a woman.



(10) In the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman or other member presiding shall havea casting vote as well as an original vote.

(11) The provisions of section 10 shall apply to the members of a panel.

61. Functions of the village land council

(1) Where any villager or person residing or working in a village or the village council or anon-village organisation within the village or a person coming within an agreement made under

section 11 or an arrangement made under section 58 has a dispute with any other villager or person residing or working in a village or with the village council or a non-village organisationwithin the village or a person coming within an agreement made under section 11 or an

arrangement made under section 58 over any matter concerning village land within that villageor land to which sections 11 or 58 apply, all parties to that dispute may agree to call in theservices of the village land council or its member to mediate between and assist those parties

to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to the dispute.

(2) Where the parties to a dispute referred to in subsection (1) agree to call in the village

land council, the convener of the village land council shall, after discussing the matter with theparties to the dispute, either–

(a) convene a meeting of the village land council; or

(b) appoint one or more members of the village land council, to act as mediators between

the parties to the dispute.

(3) Where the convener or any member of the Village Council becomes aware of or is

informed of a dispute as referred to in subsection (1), the convener shall use his best

endeavours to persuade all parties to the dispute to make use of the services of the village landcouncil or one or more of its members to act as mediators in the dispute.

(4) The village land council shall exercise its functions of mediation in accordance with–

(a) any customary principles of mediation;

(b) natural justice in so far as any customary principles of mediation do not already

provide for them;

(c) any principles and practices of mediation in which the members may have received

any training.

(5) A member of an village land council shall not act as a mediator in any case in which he or a member of his immediate family has interest and for the avoidance of doubt, a member of thevillage land council who is a member of or an employee of the village council or any non-village

organisation which is involved in a case, the subject of mediation by the Council, is deemed tohave an interest in that case.



(6) No person or non-village organisation shall be compelled or required to use the servicesof the village land council for mediation in any dispute concerning village land.

62. References of disputes from council to Court

(1) Where the parties or any of them do not accept the conclusions of any mediation into a

dispute or wish to cease to make use of the services of the village land council, they may refer the dispute to a court having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the dispute.

(2) The following courts are hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction, subject to theprovisions of Part XIII of the Land Act, 1999, to hear and determine all manner of disputes,actions and procedings concerning land, that is to say–

(a) the Court of Appeal;

(b) the Land Division of the High Court;

(c) the District Land and Housing Tribunal;

(d) the Ward Tribunal; and

(e) the Village Land Council.

PART VI

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (ss 63-66)

63. Offences

(1) Any person who–

(a) knowingly makes any false statement, orally or in writing, in connection with anydisposition or other transaction affecting land or any other matter arising under this Act; or

(b) knowingly gives any false information or makes any false statement, either orally or inwriting, in connection with any call for information or in connection with any

investigation into the commission of any offence under this Act; or

(c) fraudulently procures–

(i) the registration or issue of any certificate of occupancy, customary certificate of occupancy or any other document or instrument relating to land; or

(ii) the making of any entry or the endorsement or any matter on any such documentor instrument referred to in subparagraph (1);

(iii) the cancellation or amendment of any of the aforesaid documents or instruments



or entries or endorsements;

(d) fraudulently alters, adds to, erases, defaces, mutilates or destroys any documents or

instrument relating to land or any entry on or endorsement of any such document or instrument;

(e) suppresses or conceals from the Commissioner, the Registrar, any authorised officer or any officer of a village council exercising powers under this Act or assists or joins in

so doing, any material document, fact or matter,

commits an offence and upon conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding one million shillings or

imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, the fine and imprisonment.

(2) Any person who without reasonable excuse, fails to produce any document as required

under this Act an offence and upon conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand

shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both the fine andimprisonment.

(3) Any person who unlawfully occupies land an offence and upon conviction is liable, to a

fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings, and in the case of a continuing offence to anadditional fine not exceeding five hundred shillings for every day during which the offencecontinues.

(4) Any person who wrongfully obstructs or encroaches on a public right of way and whodoes not within the time specified in any notice served on him remove that obstruction or cease

that encroachment commits an offence and upon conviction is liable, to a fine not exceeding tenthousand shillings and in the case of a continuing offence, to an additional fine not exceedingtwo hundred shillings for every day during which the offence continues.

(5) Any person who wilfully–

(a) delays; or

(b) obstructs; or

(c) hinders; or

(d) intimidates; or

(e) assaults,

any person authorised under this Act to enter and inspect any land in the lawful exercise of power in that behalf commits an offence and upon conviction is liable, to a fine not exceedingone hundred thousand shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both

the fine and imprisonment.

(6) Any person who, under this Act, whether generally or for a specific function, in the course



of any official function or otherwise, unlawfully or with force enters on the land of any person or while on land, wilfully commits any damage to the land or anything on the land, whether

naturally on the land, or stock owned by any person using the land or crops planted or buildingserected on the land commits an offence and upon conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding

fifty thousand shillings or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to both the fine andimprisonment.

(7) Where a court has convicted any person of an offence under this section and thecommission of that offence enabled that person to obtain or retain or regain any interest in landwhich he would otherwise not have been able to obtain, retain or regain, the court may in

addition to any punishment provided for by this section imposed on that person, make any order in relation to that interest in land so obtained, retained or regained by that person as appears to

the court necessary to ensure that that person does not profit by the offence of which he hasbeen convicted.

64. Corrupt transactions

(1) Nothing in this Act shall be taken or construed to validate, affirm, authenticate or give anylegal effect to any grant of a customary certificate of occupancy, or any disposition, or anycontract for any of transaction which was obtained or induced by any corrupt action, on the part

of any government or public or local government official and such a transaction is herebydeclared to be and to have been from its inception an illegal transaction, void and having

absolutely no legal effect.

(2) For purposes of this section, a transaction shall be taken to be affected or tainted by

corruption when either–

(a) any party involved directly or indirectly in the transaction in respect of which it isalleged that an action was corrupt is convicted of corruption and all final appealsarising from that conviction have been concluded; or

(b) any public servant or other public official is interdicted, or is retired in the publicinterest, from his post on the grounds that he has been engaged in corrupt actions andthat these actions involved that transaction; or

(c) an investigatory body reports that it is satisfied or that transaction was procured bycorrupt practices.

(3) Any person occupying land which he obtained as a consequence of participating in any of the transactions covered by subsections (1) and (2) shall be liable to forfeit that land to the

President without any entitlement to any compensation.

(4) Notwithstanding that a transaction covered by this section is void, a person occupying

land as a consequence of that transaction shall be and shall always have been obliged tocomply with all the terms and conditions of the transaction as if it had been a valid transactionand shall be liable to all the remedies which may be applied to a person who fails to comply with



the terms and conditions of a valid transaction in addition to any penalties which may be appliedunder this section.

65. Regulations

(1) The Minister may make regulations generally for the better carrying into effect of the

purposes and provisions of this Act and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,such regulations may prescribe–

(a) the forms to be used in connection with this Act;

(b) the procedures to be followed by village adjudication committees, village adjudication

advisers and other officers exercising powers under of Part IVC of this Act;

(c) procedures to be followed with respect to the making of any claim for compensationand the payment of any compensation under this Act;

(d) the alteration from time to time of the amount which may be advanced by way of asmall mortgage;

(e) the form and scope of joint village land use agreements.

(2) A village council may, with the approval of the district council and subject to any generaldirective of the Minister, make by-laws for the better management and administration of landmatters within the jurisdiction of the village land.

(3) The procedure for making by-laws under subsection (2) shall be as prescribed mutatismutandis, by the provisions of Part VI of the Local Government (District Authorities) Act *(54).

66. Translation

(1) The Minister shall as soon as practicable after the enactment of this Act cause this Act to

be translated into Kiswahili and such translation shall be published in the Gazette and in suchother manner and form as will enable the citizens of Tanzania to gain access to suchtranslation.

(2) The Minister shall, by order published in the Gazette cause to be incorporated into theKiswahili version of this Act and published in the Gazette any amendments made to this Act.

(3) Any form prescribed under this Act shall be made available to the members of the publicin both English and Kiswahili.

SURA YA 114

SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI

[SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION]



INDEX TO SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

KANUNI

Kanuni za Ardhi ya Vijiji

ORODHA YA KANUNI

KANUNI ZA ARDHI YA VIJIJI

Kanuni

Jina

SEHEMU YA I

MAMBO YA AWALI

1. Jina.2. Ufafanuzi.

SEHEMU YA II

USIMAMIZI NA UTAWALA

3. Taarifa.

4. Amri.

5. Wito.6. Viapo.

7. Utaratibu wakati taasisi za kijiji zinasikiliza mashauri.

SEHEMU YA III

FIDIA

8. Nani aweza kudai fidia.

9. Misingi ya ukadiriaji.

10. Bei katika soko.11. Mthamini aliyehitimu.

12. Mthamini Mkuu.

13. Fidia.14. Posho ya upangaji.

15. Kupoteza faida.

16. Posho ya usumbufu.17. Posho ya usafiri.

18. Ardhi isiyokaliwa.

19. Riba.20. Kupewa taarifa ya kudai fidia.

21. Madai ya fidia.

22. Msaada wa kutayarisha madai ya fidia.23. Kukubali madai ya fidia.

24. Usuluhishi kuhusu madai ya fidia.



25. Aina za fidia.

SEHEMU YA IV

USIMAMIZI WA PAMOJA WA ARDHI YA KIJIJI

26. Pendekezo la usimamizi wa pamoja wa ardhi ya kijiji.

27. Kupigia kura pendekezo la usimamizi wa pamoja wa ardhi ya kijiji.28. Kukataliwa kwa pendekezo la usimamizi wa pamoja wa ardhi ya kijiji.

29. Uteuzi wa Kamati ya Pamoja.

30. Tafakari ya rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja.31. Marekebisho ya rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja.

32. Makubaliano ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja.

33. Kamati ya Pamoja inawajibika kwa uendeshaji wa usimamizi wa pamoja.34. Vipengele vinavyoelekeza uendeshaji wa Kamati ya Pamoja.

35. Yaliyomo katika Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja.

SEHEMU YA VDAFTARI LA ARDHI YA KIJIJI

36. Sehemu za Daftari.

37. Cheti cha Ardhi ya Kijiji.

38. Daftari la Hati.39. Daftari Bayana la Kutahadharisha.

40. Watu wanaostahili kuwasilisha nyaraka kwa ajili ya usajili.

41. Taratibu za usajili.42. Utoaji wa namba na hifadhi ya nyaraka zilizosajiliwa.

43. Kumbukumbu kimaandishi iliyoambatishwa na waraka uliosajiliwa.

44. Kitabu cha muhtasari.45. Shughuli za miliki za ardhi.

46. Mwenye haki kutaarifiwa.47. Jukumu la Afisa kwenye shughuli za ardhi.48. Kipaumbele.

49. Afisa aweza kukataa kusajili nyaraka.

50. Uwezo wa Afisa kusahihisha makosa.51. Usajili hautaondoa kasoro au kuhalalisha.

52. Daftari laweza kukaguliwa na nakala kupatikana.

53. Nyaraka mbadala ya iliyosajiliwa.

54. Nakala ya waraka uliyosajiliwa.

55. Kupatikana waraka asili uliyosajiliwa.56. Kupatikana nakala ya waraka uliosajiliwa.

57. Nakala ya waraka potevu uliyosajiliwa.

58. Nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka uliyosajiliwa kukubalika katika kesi za madai.

59. Matumizi ya nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka uliyosajiliwa katika kesi za madai.60. Muda wa Masjala kuwa wazi.

SEHEMU YA VI

UAMUZI WA MASLAHI NA MIPAKA KATIKA ARDHI

61. Taarifa kwa pande zinazohusika.



62. Kuweka mipaka.63. Uthibitisho wa mipaka.

64. Kusafisha na kuweka alama kwenye mipaka.

65. Kutunza mipaka.66. Kipimo cha upimaji.

67. Matayarisho ya mchoro.

68. Taratibu za upimaji.69. Kuweka kumbukumbu ya haki za njia.

70. Mgao wa mchoro.

71. Kumbukumbu za uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka katika ardhi.72. Taarifa ya upimaji wa ardhi inayomilikiwa kwa hakimiliki ya kimila iliyosajiliwa.

73. Namba ya Utambulisho wa Kipande cha Ardhi.

74. Mgawanyo.

SEHEMU YA VII

MENGINEYO

75. Waziri aweza kuweka viwango vya juu vya kumiliki ardhi.

76. Taratibu za idhini ya viwango vya juu vya kumiliki ardhi.77. Misingi ya jumla ya usuluhishi.

78. Maandalizi ya nyaraka.

79. Fomu zitakazotumika kuhusiana na Sheria na Kanuni hizi.80. Mabadiliko ya fomu.

81. Ada.

82. Faini.83. Ushuhuda wa Kusaini Nyaraka.

JEDWALI LA KWANZA

FOMU

SEHEMU YA I

USIMAMIZI NA UTAWALA

Fomu Na. 1 Amri ya kuitwa kwenye Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji.

Fomu Na. 2 Amri ya kuwasilisha nyaraka mbele ya Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji.

Fomu Na. 3 Wito wa kuhudhuria kusikilizwa mbele ya Kamati ya Uamuzi wa Kijiji.Fomu Na. 4 Wito wa kuhudhuria kusikilizwa mbele ya Baraza la Ardhi la Kijiji.

Fomu Na. 5 Kiapo cha shahidi.

Fomu Na. 6 Taarifa ya kusudio la kutangaza ardhi yenye madhara.Fomu Na. 7 Taarifa ya kuitangaza ardhi yenye madhara.

Fomu Na. 8 Taarifa ya kusudio la kuhawilisha Ardhi ya Kijiji kuwa ardhi ya kawaida au ardhi ya

hifadhi.

Fomu Na. 9 Taarifa ya kuhawilisha Ardhi ya kijiji.Fomu Na. 10 Tamko la mgongano wa maslahi.

SEHEMU YA II

FIDIA

Fomu Na. 11 Taarifa kwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji kudai fidia.



Fomu Na. 12 Ombi la Halmashauri ya Kijiji kulipwa fidia.Fomu Na. 13 Kibali cha fidia.

Fomu Na. 14 Taarifa kwa mkazi kudai fidia.

Fomu Na. 15 Ombi la mkazi kudai fidia.

SEHEMU YA III

DAFTARI LA ARDHI YA KIJIJI

Fomu Na. 16 Cheti cha Ardhi ya Kijiji.

Fomu Na. 17 Kitabu cha Muhtasari.

SEHEMU YA IV

HAKIMILIKI ZA KIMILA

Fomu Na. 18 Ombi la hakimiliki ya Kimila.

Fomu Na. 19 Ahadi ya toleo la hakimiliki ya kimila.

Fomu Na. 20 Kukubali ahadi ya Toleo la Hakimiliki ya Kimila.Fomu Na. 21 Cheti cha Hakimiliki ya Kimila.

Fomu Na. 22 Ombi la nakala ya Cheti cha Hakimiliki ya Kimila.Fomu Na. 23 Taarifa ya kulipa kodi.

Fomu Na. 24 Taarifa ya Uhakilishaji wa Hakimiliki ya Kimila.

Fomu Na. 25 Kukubaliwa Kukataliwa kwa uhakilishaji wa hakimiliki ya kimila.Fomu Na. 26 Ombi la kibali cha kutoa hakimiliki isiyo asili.

Fomu Na. 27 Cheti cha kibali cha hakimiliki isiyo asili upangishaji leseni haki ya matumizi.

Fomu Na. 28 Ombi la kutoa hakimiliki isiyo asili kwenye kijiji.Fomu Na. 29 Kutolewa kwa hakimiliki isiyo isili kwenye ardhi ya kijiji.

Fomu Na. 30 Kurejesha hakimiliki ya kimila.

Fomu Na. 31 Barua ya onyo.Fomu Na. 32 Kibali kwa hatua ya Halmashauri ya Kijiji.

Fomu Na. 33 Ilani ya kujieleza.Fomu Na. 34 Taarifa ya kulipa taini.Fomu Na. 35 Taarifa ya kurekebisha ukiukaji wa masharti.

Fomu Na. 36 Amri ya Usimamizi.

Fomu Na. 37 Ombi la idhini ya uhakilishaji kwa muda.Fomu Na. 38 Taarifa ya uhakilishaji kwa muda wa hakimiliki ya kimila.

Fomu Na. 39 Agizo la masharti ya uhakilishaji kwa muda.

Fomu Na. 40 Leseni ya Makazi.Fomu Na. 41 Taarifa ya kubaini utelekezaji ardhi.

Fomu Na. 42 Tamko la utelekezaji ardhi.

SEHEMU YA V

UAMUZI KUHUSU MASLAHI NA MIPAKA KATIKA ARDHI

Fomu Na. 43 Ombi la kibali kuhusu shughuli ya ardhi mavozidi kiwango cha juu cha ardhi kwa kijiji.

Fomu Na. 44 Ombi la Maamuzi kwa Eneo Maalumu.

Fomu Na. 45 Pendekezo la kutumia Uamuzi Ngazi ya Kijiji.Fomu Na. 46 Taarifa ya Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji kusikiliza masuala ya ardhi.

Fomu Na. 47 Uthibitisho wa mipaka.

Fomu Na. 48 Taarifa ya upimaji wa mipaka ya hakimiliki ya kimila.



Fomu Na. 49 Kugawanya hakimiliki ya kimila.Fomu Na. 50 Kumbukumbu ya uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka ya ardhi.

JEDWALI LA PILIADA

JEDWALI LA TATU

FAINI

KANUNI ZA ARDHI YA VIJIJI

(Zimetungwa chini ya fungu la 65)

G.N. No. 201 of 2002

SEHEMU YA I

MAMBO YA AWALI

1. Jina

Kanuni hizi ziitwe Kanuni za Ardhi ya Vijiji, 2002.

2. Ufafanuzi

Katika Kanuni hizi, isipokuwa tu pale ambapo maelezo yanahitaji vinginevyo:–

"Afisa" maana yake ni Afisa Mtendaji wa kijiji;

"Afisa Ardhi wa Wilaya" maana yake ni Afisa Mteule aliyeteuliwa chini ya kifungu cha 11

cha Sheria ya Ardhi;

"Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji" maana yake ni mtu aliyeteuliwa kuwa Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji kwa

mujibu wa sheria husika;

"Baraza" maana yake ni Baraza la Ardhi la Kijiji lililoundwa chini ya fungu la 60 la Sheria;

"Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji" maana yake ni daftari la ardhi ya kijiji linalotunzwa kwa mujibu wa

fungu la 21 la Sheria;

"daimiliki kwa nyaraka zilizowasilishwa" maana yake ni kuwasilisha waraka wowote

uliotajwa katika aya za (ii), (iv) na (v) za ibara ya (b) ya kifungu cha (6) cha fungu la 112 la

Sheria ya Ardhi;

"hakimiliki isiyo asili" maana yake ni kama ilivyofafanuliwa na Sheria;

"hakimiliki ya kimila" maana yake ni kama ilivyofafanuliwa na Sheria;

"Kamati" maana yake ni Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji iliyoundwa chini ya fungu la 53 la

Sheria, na ni pamoja na Afisa Mwamuzi anayetumia mamlaka yake chini ya Fungu la 56 la



Sheria;

"Mahakama" maana yake ni kama ilivyofafanuliwa na Sheria;

"Mamlaka ya Serikali ya Mtaa" maana yake ni kama ilivyofafanuliwa katika fungu la 2 la

Sheria;

"Masjala ya Ardhi ya Wilaya" maana yake ni Masjala ya Ardhi ya Wilaya iliyoanzishwa chini

ya Sheria ya Usajili;

"maslahi katika shauri" maana yake ni maslahi, kifedha au vinginevyo, yanayoweza

kupunguza ubora wa wajibu wa mtu katika kusikiliza na kuamua jambo lolote, na ni pamoja namaslahi ya ndugu wa damu au kutokana na uhusiano wa ndoa;

"mkazi" maana yake ni mmiliki wa hakimiliki ya kimila;

"Mthamini Aliyehitimu" maana yake ni kama ilivyofafanuliwa kwenye fungu la 2 la Sheriaya Ardhi *(55);

"rehani isiyo rasmi" maana yake ni rehani kama ilivyofafanuliwa kwenye ibara (a) ya

kifungu cha (6) cha fungu la 112 la Sheria ya Ardhi;

"Serikali" maana yake ni Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania;

"Sheria" maana yake ni Sheria ya Ardhi ya Vijiji *(56);

"taasisi ya kijiji" maana yake ni Halmashauri ya Kijiji, Kamati ya Halmashauri ya Kijiji,

Kamati ya uamuzi Ngazi ya Kijiji na Afisa Mwamuzi anayetekeleza mamlaka yake kwa mujibuwa fungu la 56 la Sheria.

"utaratibu wa usimamizi wa pamoja" maana yake ni utaratibu wa usimamizi wa ardhi ya

kijiji unaoweza kuwekwa kwa mujibu wa fungu la 8 la Sheria;

"waraka uliosajiliwa" maana yake ni cheti cha hakimiliki ya kimila au hakimiliki isiyo asili

kinachotolewa kwa mujibu wa sehemu ya IV ya Sheria, kilichomo kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza laKanuni hizi,

SEHEMU YA II

USIMAMIZI WA UTAWALA

3. Taarifa

Taarifa ya kusikilizwa kwa shauri lolote na taasisi ya kijiji kwa mujibu wa Kanuni hizi itatolewa

kama ilivyo kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza.

4. Amri

Amri mayomtaka mtu ahudhurie kikao au awasilishe waraka mbele ya taasisi ya kijiji



itaandikwa kwenye fomu maalum zilizoonyeshwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza.

5. Wito

(1) Wito unaotolewa na Mwenyekiti wa Kamati, au Afisa Mwamuzi anayetumia mamlakachini ya fungu la 56 la Sheria, kwa mtu anayetakiwa kuhudhuria kwa mujibu wa fungu la 54 la

Sheria ya Ardhi ya Vijiji lazima umpe taarifa ya siku zisizopungua 14 kabla ya tareheanapotakiwa kuhudhuria kusikilizwa shauri.

(2) Wito kwa mujibu wa kanuni hii utatolewa kama ulivyoonyeshwa kwenye Jedwali laKwanza.

6. Viapo

Kiapo anachoweza kuapisha Mwenyekiti wa Kamati au Afisa Mwamuzi anayetumia mamlakachini ya fungu la 56 la Sheria kinaweza kuwa kama kilivyoonyeshwa kwenye Jedwali laKwanza.

7. Utaratibu wakati taasisi za kijiji zinasikiliza mashauri

Katika kusikiliza mashauri kwa mujibu wa Sheria au Kanuni Hizi, taasisi ya kijiji itawajibika

kufuata taratibu za msingi ya haki za binadamu katika kuweka taratibu zake, na itawajibika–

(a) kuendesha usikilizaji wa mashauri hadharani na bila ya urasimu lakini kwa kufuata

utaratibu, heshima na usawa kwa pande zote kufafanua wazi kwa wawakilishi wowotena taasisi hiyo ya kijiji itazingatia zaidi maswala ya msingi katika shauri lililoletwa naitatoa uamuzi juu ya haki bila kulazimika kuzingatia taratibu za kiufundi;

(b) kutomshirikisha katika kikao mjumbe wa taasisi ya kijiji mwenye maslahi katika shaurilinalojadihwa, maslahi ambayo mjumbe huyo atawajibika kuyatangaza na kutohudhuria

kikao wala kujihusisha kwa namna yoyote ile katika kusikiliza kama mjumbe wa taasisiya kijiji;

(c) kabla ya kusikiliza shauri, kupanga na kutangaza saa ya mchana ya siku ambaposhauri litasikilizwa na katika kufanya hivyo itazingatia mazingira ya pande husika nampangilio wa kawaida wa kazi katika eneo ambako shauri litasikilizwa;

(d) kuruhusu watu wote wanaotaka kutoa hoja mbele ya taasisi ya kijiji wafike mbele yataasisi hiyo wao binafsi au kwa kuwakilishwa;

(e) kuruhusu mtu aliyeitwa shaurini atoe hoja yake kwanza na ndipo ahojiwe kuhusu

jambo lolote kutokana na hoja yake, au aombwe na mjumbe aliyepo au mtu mwenyemaslahi katika ardhi inayohusika katika shauri, kutoa taarifa za ziada kuhusu hojayake;

(f) baada ya mtu aliyeitwa kutoa hoja yake, kuruhusu mtu yeyote aliye na madai juu yaardhi husika atoe hoja yake na kuulizwa maswali na mjumbe yeyote aliyepo wa taasisi



ya kijiji, na mtu yeyote aliyeitwa shaurini;

(g) Kuhusu mtu yeyote alete maelezo kwa mdomo au kimaandishi au kwa mdomo na pia

kimaandishi;

(h) endapo taasisi ya kijiji itakusudia kuitisha ushahidi juu ya jambo au suala lolote,itawataarifu wahusika wa pande zote za shauri kuhusu uamuzi huo na kuwaruhusukutoa maoni au kuuliza maswali kuhusu ushahidi huo;

(i) endapo taasisi ya kijiji itatembelea na kukagua ardhi mayohusika katika shaurilinalosikilizwa, itaruhusu watu wanaodai kuwa na maslahi katika ardhi hiyo, waonyeshe

alama za ardhi hiyo na watoe maelezo mengine kuhusu ardhi hiyo na maslahi yaokatika ardhi hiyo;

(j) kwa kumtumia Mwenyekiti wa taasisi ya kijiji, au mjumbe, au afisa aliyeteuliwa na

Mwenyekiti kwa ajili hiyo, kutunza kumbukumbu ya uendeshaji wa shauri lililosikilizwa,pamoja na kumbukumbu ya kutembelea ardhi yoyote wakati wa kusikiliza shauri;

(k) yaweza kukubali kama ushahidi kuhusu mipaka ya eneo la ardhi mayohusika katika

shauri:

(i) tamko kuhusu mipaka litolewalo na mtu yeyote anayetambuliwa na jamii kama

mtu mwaminifu na anayefahamu masuala ya ardhi katika kijiji;

(ii) aina rahisi au za kiasili za upimaji au uwekaji mipaka kwa kutumia alama asili namiti au majengo na vitu vinginevyo vinavyoonekana dhahiri;

(iii) shughuli za binadamu kwenye ardhi kama vile matumizi ya njia za miguu, mapito

ya mifugo sehemu za kupata maji na uwekaji alama za mipaka katika ardhi;

(iv) ramani na michoro iliyochorwa kwa vipimo au bila vipimo rasmi mayoonyesha kwarejea, jambo lolote lililotajwa katika aya ya (ii) au ya (iii) za ibara (K) mipaka ya

eneo la ardhi;

(l) kuzingatia kwa umakini wa kipekee maslahi katika ardhi mayohusika na kusikiliza

shauri linalowahusu wanawake, watoto na watu wasiojiweza, na kuhakikisha kwambamaslahi haya yanazingatiwa na kuwekewa kumbukumbu kikamilifu;

(m) katika kuamua kama mafaa kuahirisha usikilizaji wa shauri, yaweza kuahirisha shaurikwa lengo la kuzirahisishia pande husika kuondoa wao wenyewe tofauti walizonazo

kuhusu maslahi ya kila upande katika ardhi na lazima kunukuu mapatano yoyote

waliyoyafanya shauri litakapoanza tena kusikilizwa;

(n) kuzingatia uwezekano wakati wowote au baada ya kusikiliza jambo fulani, kutoauamuzi wa awali kuhusu suala lolote, endapo itafanya uamuzi wa aina hii, iwaombepande zote kutoa maoni yao juu ya uamuzi huo kwa mdomo au kwa maandishi;



(o) kujaribu kufikia maamuzi yote kwa muafaka lakini kama haitawekana, basi uamuzi wawalio wengi waweza kuchukuliwa na zinukuliwe sababu za uamuzi wa wengi na za

wale wachache;

(p) katika kufikia uamuzi kama suala lolote limethibitishwa mbele ya taasisi ya kijiji,

kuamua kama kumetolewa ushahidi wa kutosha yaani kama, uzito wa, hoja unaashiriazaidi kwamba jambo limethibitishwa kuliko kutothibitishwa;

(q) kuandaa taarifa itakayojumuisha–

(i) majina ya wajumbe wa taasisi ya kijiji iliyosikiliza shauri;

(ii) tarehe ya kusikiliza shauri;

(iii) majina ya watu wa pande husika;

(iv) muhtasari wa ushahidi wa pande zote na vya mashahidi wote;

(v) maamuzi kuhusu vipengele vyote vya shauri na madai pamoja na sababu zamapendekezo hayo;

(vi) mapendekezo kwa vipengele vyote wa shauri na madai pamoja na sababu zamapendekezo hayo;

(r) kusaini ripoti iliyotayarishwa kwa mujibu wa ibara (q).

SEHEMU YA III

FIDIA

8. Nani aweza kudai fidia

Wafuatao waweza kudai fidia kutokana na uhawilishaji wa ardhi ya kijiji kuwa ardhi yakawaida au ardhi ya hifadhi chini ya fungu la 4 la Sheria, au kutokana na ardhi kutangazwakuwa ardhi yenye madhara chini ya fungu la 6 la Sheria, na endapo Halmashauri ya Kijiji

imeamua kwamba wakazi watatakiwa kuihama ardhi hiyo yenye madhara au sehemu ya ardhihiyo:

(a) Halmashauri ya Kijiji kwa niaba ya wanakijiji waliopoteza ardhi ya pamoja ya kijiji, malina mafao kutokana na ardhi ya pamoja ya kijiji;

(b) Mwanakijiji yeyote anayekalia ardhi iliyohawilishwa au ardhi yenye madhara chini yahakimiliki ya kimila, bila kujali kama hakimiliki hiyo imesajiliwa au la.

9. Misingi ya ukadiriaji

Msingi wa kukadiria thamani ya ardhi yoyote na uboreshaji usiohamishika kwa ajili ya ulipajiwa fidia chini ya Sheria ni thamani ya ardhi hiyo katika soko.



10. Bei katika soko

Thamani ya ardhi katika soko inayoihusu ardhi yoyote na uboreshaji usiohamishika kutumia

kigezo cha mlinganisho wa mauzo hali halisi ya karibuni ya ardhi au mali kama hiyo au kwakutumia kigezo cha mapato au gharama ya kufidia endapo ardhi au mali ni ya aina yakeambayo haiwezi kuuzwa.

11. Mthamini aliyehitimu

Kila makadirio ya thamani ya ardhi na ya uboreshaji usiohamishika kwa malengo ya Sheriahii lazima yafanywe na mthamini aliyehitimu.

12. Mthamini Mkuu

Kila makadirio ya thamani ya ardhi na uboreshaji usiohamishika kwa ajili ya kulipa fidia

itakayolipwa na Serikali Kuu au Serikali za Mitaa lazima yathibitishwe na Mthamini Mkuu waSerikali au mwakilishi wake.

13. Fidia

Fidia kwa kupoteza maslahi yoyote kwenye ardhi itajumuisha thamani ya uboreshajiusiohamishika, posho ya usumbufu, posho ya usafiri, posho ya upangaji na kupoteza faida.

14. Posho ua upangaji

Kodi ya pango katika soko kwa jengo itakadiriwa na kuzidishwa mara miezi thelathini na sita(36) ili kupata posho ya upangaji itakayolipwa.

15. Kupoteza faida

Faida halisi kwa mwezi kwa biashara inayoendeshwa kwenye ardhi itakadiriwa nakuzidishwa mara miezi thelathini na sita (36) ili kufikia kiwango cha malipo ya faida inayopotea.

16. Posho ya usumbufu

Posho ya usumbufu itakadiriwa kwa kuzidisha thamani ya ardhi mara wastani wa asilimia yariba inayotolewa na Benki za Kibiashara kwa akiba ya muda maalum ya miezi kumi na miwili

(12) wakati wa kupoteza ardhi.

17. Posho ya usafiri

Posho ya usafiri itakuwa gharama halisi ya kusafirisha tani kumi na mbili (12) za mizigo kwa

reli au barabara (kutegemea njia ya gharama nafuu) hadi umbali usiozidi kilomita ishirini (20)kutoka mahali pa kuondoshwa.

18. Ardhi isiyokaliwa

Posho za usafiri, upangaji na kupoteza faida hazitalipwa kwa ardhi isiyokaliwa wakati



maslahi katika ardhi yanapotezwa.

19. Riba

(1) Riba za usafiri, upangaji na kupoteza faida Kuu au Mamlaka ya Serikali ya Mtaa pale tuambapo malipo ya fidia hayakulipwa kwa wakati.

(2) Kwa ajili ya ukadiriaji wa riba kwenye fidia mayotakiwa "kulipwa kwa wakati" maana yakeni kulipa fidia katika kipindi cha miezi sita baada ya ardhi mayohusika kutwaliwa au hakimiliki

kubatilishwa.

(3) Endapo kiwango cha fidia hakilipwi miezi sita (6) baada ya ardhi kutwaliwa au hatimiliki

kubatilishwa riba italipwa kwa wastani wa asilimia ya riba mayolipwa na Benki za kibiasharakwenye akiba za muda maalum hadi fidia itakapolipwa.

20. Kupewa taarifa ya kudai fidia

Pale ambapo fungu la 4 na la 6 yanahusika, Kamishna atatoa taarifa, kwa fomu iliyokokatika Jedwali la Kwanza, kwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji na watu wote wanaokalia ardhi kwahakimiliki ya kimila au hakimiliki isiyo asili kwenye eneo la ardhi linalohusika na taarifa ya

kuhawilisha ardhi ya kijiji au, kwa kadiri itakavyokuwa, taarifa ya kutangaza ardhi yenyemadhara katika Halmashauri ya Kijiji na watu wote waliotajwa katika kanuni hii walete madai

yao ya fidia.

21. Madai ya fidia

Madai ya fidia yatawasilishwa kwa fomu iliyopo katika Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni hizi

katika kipindi kisichopungua siku sitini baada ya kupokelewa taarifa iliyotajwa katika kanuni ya

20.

22. Msaada wa kutayarisha madai ya fidia

Afisa Mteule, kutokana na ombi la Afisa wa Kijiji ambacho ardhi yake imetolewa taarifa chiniya fungu la 4 la Sheria kuhusu kuhawilisha ardhi ya kijiji, au taarifa chini ya fungu la 6 la Sheria

kuhusu kutangaza ardhi ya kijiji kuwa ardhi yenye madhara atalazimika kusaidia kijyi hicho nawatu wanaokalia maeneo ambayo yametolewa matangazo namna ya kuandaa na kuwasilishamadai ya fidia.

23. Kukubali madai ya fidia

(1) Kamishna, katika kipmdi kisichozidi siku tisini kutoka tarehe madai yalipowasilishwa,

ataamua ama ayakubali au ayakatae maombi hayo au sehemu yake.

(2) Endapo Kamishna atakubali madai yoyote ya fidia yaliyowasilishwa chini ya kanuni ya 21,basi atatoa taarifa kwa Waziri.

(3) Katika kipindi kisichopungua siku ishirini na moja tangu Waziri kupokea taarifa, Kamishna



atafanya utaratibu wa kumwezesha mdai alipwe fidia.

24. Usuluhishi kuhusu madai ya fidia

(1) Endapo Kamishna ataamua kutokubali madai ya fidia iwapo mdai na Kamishnawataafikiana, madai hayo yanaweza kurejeshwa kwa mtu atakayeteuliwa na Waziri kuwa

msuluhishi wa suala hilo.

(2) Endapo msuluhishi atafaulu kupatanisha pande husika, atampeleka Waziri taarifa ya

upatanisho huo, na Kamishna katika kipindi cha siku ishirini na moja tangu Waziri apokeetaarifa kutoka kwa msuluhishi, atafanya utaratibu wa kumwezesha mdai alipwe fidia.

(3) Endapo msuluhishi, baada ya siku zisizopungua tisini za majadiliano kati ya pandehusika, atashindwa kuzisaidia kufikia makubaliano katika suala la madai ya fidia au endapopande zote husika au upande mmoja wapo hautaki kupeleka suala la madai kwa msuluhishi,

basi suala hilo litapelekwa kwenye Mahakama yenye mamlaka.

25. Aina za Fidia

(1) Fidia kwa mujibu wa fungu la 4 na la 6 la Sheria na Kanuni ya 13 yaweza kutolewa kwa

namna au mojawapo ya namna zifuatazo:–

(a) ardhi inayofanana kwa ubora, ukubwa na uwezo wa kuzalisha kama ardhi iliyopotea;

(b) jengo linalofanana kwa ubora, ukubwa na matumizi kama jengo lililopotea;

(c) mimea na miche;

(d) fursa ya kutumia mali za jumuiya;

(e) kiasi cha fedha sawa na thamani ya uboreshaji usiohamishika wa ardhi iliyohawilishwaau ardhi iliyotangazwa kuwa ardhi yenye madhara, au malipo ya fidia kwa kupunguza

eneo la ardhi ama kwa upotevu au uharibifu wa ardhi ambayo inaweza kutumikakuzalisha, au malipo kwa ajili ya usumbufu uliosababishwa na uhawilishaji wa ardhi auardhi kutangazwa kuwa ardhi yenye madhara;

(f) kupewa mara kwa mara nafaka na vyakula vingine mbalimbali kwa kipindikitakachowekwa;

(g) namna nyingine za fidia zinazoweza kukubalika kati ya mdai na Kamishna.

SEHEMU YA IV

USIMAMIZI WA PAMOJA WA ARDHI YA KIJIJI

26. Pendekezo la Usimamizi wa pamoja wa Ardhi ya Kijiji

Pendekezo la usimamizi wa pamoja wa ardhi ya kijiji baina ya vijiji viwili, au kijiji naHalmashauri ya Wilaya au mamlaka ya mji, laweza kutolewa na Kamishna wa Ardhi kwa



Halmashauri za Vijiji na Halmashauri za Wilaya au Halmashauri ya Mji, au laweza kutolewa nahalmashauri ya kijiji kwa halmashauri ya kijiji kingine au mamlaka yoyote ya mtaa, au laweza

kutolewa kwa halmashauri ya kijiji ambacho inapendekezwa kuundwa kwa usimamizi huo wapamoja nayo.

27. Kupigia kura pendekezo la Usimamizi wa Pamoja wa Ardhi ya Kijiji

Pendekezo lililotajwa katika Kanuni ya 2 lazima lifikiriwe na lipigiwe kura na halmashauri zavijiji na halmashauri za mamlaka za mitaa zinazohusika.

28. Kukataliwa kwa pendekezo la Usimamizi wa Pamoja wa Ardhi ya Kijiji

Endapo pendekezo litakataliwa na halmashauri ya kijiji au mamlaka ya mtaa, lazima kipindikisichopungua miezi mitatu kipite ndipo pendekezo hilo au pendekezo lenye marekebisho

laweza kuletwa lifikiriwe tena na halmashauri ya kijiji au halmashauri ya mamlaka ya mtaa

iliyokataa pendekezo la awali.

29. Uteuzi wa Kamati ya pamoja

Halmashauri za vijiji na mamlaka za mitaa zinazopiga kura kukubali uundaji wa mpango wausimamizi wa pamoja, kila moja itateua watu wasiopungua watatu na wasiozidi watano kuwa

wajumbe wa Kamati ya Pamoja ili waandae Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja.

30. Tafakari ya Rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi pamoja

Baada ya Kamati ya Pamoja kuafikiana kuhusu rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa

Pamoja, itapeleka rasimu hiyo katika mkutano wa kijiji na halmashauri ya mamlaka ya mtaahusika kwa ajili ya vyombo hivyo kuufikiria na kuupigia kura mpango huo.

31. Marekebisho ya Rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja

Mkutano wa kijiji na halmashauri ya mamlaka ya mtaa vinaweza kupendekeza marekebishokatika rasimu ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja, na mapendekezo yoyote ya marekebisho

yatawasilishwa kwa Kamati ya pamoja ili yafikiriwe.

32. Makubaliano ya Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja

Mpango wa Usimamizi wa pamoja hautatekeleza hadi hapo kila kijiji na kila mamlaka ya

mtaa husika katika mpango huo waafiki vipengele vya mpango huo na wawe wamepiga kura yakuupokea mpango huo.

33. Kamati ya Pamoja inawajibuka kwa uendeshaji wa usimamizi wa Pamoja

Kamati ya Pamoja iliyoundwa kuandaa Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja itakuwa na jukumu la utekelezaji wa Makubaliano ya Matumizi ya Pamoja ya Ardhi na itakutana si chini ya

mara moja kila miezi mitatu kuhakikisha kunakuwepo uendeshaji madhubuti na rahisi.



34. Vipengele vinavyoelekeza uendeshaji wa Kamati ya pamoja

Kamati ya Pamoja iliyoundwa chini ya Kanuni hizi itaongozwa na kufuata miongozi

inayoongoza shughuli za kamati zilizowekwa chini ya Sheria ya Serikali za Mitaa (Mamlaka zaWilaya).

35. Yaliyomo katika mpango wa usimamizi wa Pamoja

Mpango wa Usimamizi wa Pamoja utashughulikia usimamizi wa ardhi ya kijiji kinachohusikana bila ya kuathiri ujumla wa kanuni hii, mpango huo waweza kuwa na vipengele vinavyohusu:

(a) mipango na uratibu wa ujenzi na matumizi ya majengo kwenye ardhi;

(b) uzoaji wa takataka katika ardhi;

(c) ulinzi na hifadhi ya maeneo yoyote ya hifadhi ya misitu kwenye ardhi ya kijiji, au

kwenye maeneo mengine yenye misitu inayosimamiwa na kijiji, au kwenye maeneomengine maalum ya ardhi ya kijiji;

(d) utoaji wa misaada kitaaluma ili kukisaidia katika usimamizi wa ardhi ya kijiji;

(e) kuchangia gharama za usimamizi wa ardhi ya kijiji pale ambapo gharama za usimamizizimeongezeka kutokana na shughuli za maendeleo yanayotokea katika halmashauri

ya wilaya au ya mamlaka ya mji;

(f) muda usiozidi miaka mitatu, ambapo mpango wa usimamizi wa pamoja utadumu;

(g) taratibu za kusuluhisha tofauti baina ya pande shiriki za Mpango wa usimamizi waPamoja.

SEHEMU YA V

DAFTARI LA ARDHI KIJIJI

36. Sehemu ya Daftari

Daftari litagawanywa katika sehemu zifuatazo–

(a) Sehemu A Cheti cha Ardhi ya Kijiji;

(b) Sehemu B Daftari la Hati;

(c) Sehemu C Daftari Bayana la Kutahadharisha.

37. Cheti cha Ardhi ya Kijiji

(1) Cheti cha Ardhi ya Kijiji kitakuwa katika fomu iliyowekwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza naitahifadhiwa katika sehemu tofauti ya Daftari.



(2) Kumbukumbu pekee zinazoweza kuingizwa kwenye Cheti cha Ardhi ya kijiji ni:

(a) marekebisho, anayoagiza Kamishna yafanywe, ili kuweka kumbukumbu za mabadiliko

ya mipaka ya ardhi ya kijiji;

(b) kumbukumbu zinazoonyesha vipande vya ardhi viliyomegwa au vilivyoongezwakwenye ardhi ya kijiji chini ya fungu la 4 na la 5 la Sheria;

(c) kumbukumbu zinazoonyesha maeneo ya ardhi ya kijiji yaliyotangazwa kuwa ardhiyenye madhara chini ya fungu la 6 la Sheria.

38. Daftari la Hati

(1) Daftari la Hati litakuwa ni Daftari lenye:

(a) kumbukumbu ya hatimiliki za kimila sehemu ya 1 ya Daftari la Hati;

(b) kumbukumbu ya hakimiliki zisizo asili sehemu ya 2 ya Daftari la Hati;

(c) kumbukumbu zote za uhamishaji na shughuli zinazohusiana na hakimiliki za kimila nahakimili zisizo za asili, ikiwa ni pamoja na ilani zozote zilizoingizwa kwenye daftari laHati-Sehemu ya 3 ya daftari la Hati.

(2) Afisa atasajili kwenye sehemu husika ya Daftari la Hati kwa namna ilivyoelekezwa naKanuni hizi nyaraka zote zilizowasilishwa kwake katika fomu zilizoainishwa kwenye Jedwali la

Kwanza.

39. Daftari Bayana la kutahadha risha

(1) Daftari Bayana la kutahadharisha litakuwa daftari lenye:

(a) nyaraka za kurejesha hakimiliki ya kimila;

(b) amri za kutekeleza ardhi;

(c) amri za kuhakilisha kwa muda hakimiliki ya kimila;

(d) taarifa zinazohusu kulipa au kutolipa kodi ya pango, kodi, faini na malipo mengineyapaswayo kulipwa kwa taasisi yoyote ya umma kwa kuhusiana na hakimiliki ya kimila

au hakimiliki isiyo asili au ya kukalia ardhi ya kijiji;

(e) nyaraka zinazoweka kumbukumbu za maelezo ya mpango wa usimamizi wa pamoja;

(f) kumbukumbu inayoweka uamuzi wa Mkutano wa Kijiji au Halmashauri ya Kijiji auchombo kingine chochote chenye mamlaka ya kuamua kwamba eneo la ardhi ya kijiji

litahifadhiwa kwa ajili ya matumizi ya misitu, usimamizi wa wanyama pori au vinginevyoyametengwa kwa malengo ya hifadhi;

(g) kumbukumbu inayoweka uamuzi wa mkutano wa Kijiji kwamba sehemu ya ardhi ya



kijiji imetengwa kama ardhi ya pamoja ya kijiji kwa mujibu wa fungu la 13 la Sheria.

(2) Afisa atasajili kwenye Daftari Bayana la kutahadharisha kwa namna ilivyoelekezwa na

Kanuni Hizi, nyaraka zote zinazohusiana na masuala yaliyorejewa kwenye kanuni hii,zitakazowasilishwa kwake kwenye fomu zilizoainishwa kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza.

40. Watu wanaostahili kuwasilisha nyaraka kwa ajili ya usajili

Waraka kwa ajili ya usajili sharti uwasilishwe na mtu anayedai maslahi kutokana na waraka

huo, au mwakilishi wake, na Afisa anaweza kuhoji ili ajiridhishe na utambulisho na maslahi yamtu anayewasilisha waraka au kama ni mwakilishi mamlaka yake.

41. Taarifa za Usajili

(1) Usajili utahusisha hatua ya Afisa kuweka kwenye jalada waraka uliotolewa kwa mujibuwa kanuni ya 13, na kumkabidhi mtu anayeleta waraka kwa ajili ya usajili nakala ya waraka huo(ambayo mtu yule anatakiwa kuleta) baada ya nakala hiyo kuthibitishwa na Afisa kwamba ni

nakala halisi ya waraka huo.

(2) Saini ya Afisa kama ilivyoelezwa katika ibara (1) ya kanuni hii, kwenye nyaraka

iliyosajiliwa na nakala yake, itakuwa ushahidi tosha wa usajili.

42. Utoaji wa namba na hifadhi ya nyaraka zilizosajiliwa

Afisa atatoa namba zinazofuatana kwa kila waraka unaohifadhiwa na kuwekwakumbukumbu kwenye waraka inayoonyesha tarehe ya usajili na jina la mtu aliyewasilishawaraka huo na Afisa atahifadhi nyaraka katika sehemu husika za Daftari la Hati kwa mpangilio

kadri anavyozipokea.

43. Kumbukumbu kimaandishi iliyoambatanishwa na waraka uliosajiliwa

Kumbukumbu iliyosainiwa na Afisa itaambatishwa kwenye kila waraka iliyosajiliwa ikinukuu

maelezo mafupi ya usajili, kumbukumbu hiyo itakuwa ushahidi tosha wa awali kwamba warakaumesajiliwa kama ipasavyo.

44. Kitabu cha muhtasari

Afisa atatunza kitabu kitakachoweka muhtasari wa kumbukumbu zilizomo kwenye Daftari laHati, na kwa kila cheti kitakachosajiliwa, ataingiza katika kitabu hicho namba ya usajili, jina la

mwenye au wenye cheti, tarehe ya cheti na tarehe usajili na ukurasa tofauti wa kitabu hichoutatumika kuweka kumbukumbu zinazohusu cheti kilichosajiliwa.

45. Mwenye haki kutaarifiwa

(1) Mwenye hakimiliki ya kimila au hakimiliki isiyo asili anayefanya uhamishaji au shughulikwenye ardhi au mtu mwingine yeyote anayehusika kwenye shughuli hiyo, aweza katika kipindi

cha miezi miwili cha kukamilisha shughuli hiyo, kuwasilisha kwa afisa nyaraka za ushahidi wa



shughuli hiyo.

(2) Endapo shughuli yoyote ya ardhi matakiwa kupata kibali cha mwanandoa, ushahidi wa

kimaandishi wa shughuli hiyo lazima uambatishwe na ushahidi wa kimaandishi wa kibali hichoau vibali hivyo vimetolewa.

46. Jukumu la Afisa kwenye shughuli za ardhi

Endapo ushahidi kimaandishi wa shughuli za ardhi unapelekwa kwa Afisa chini ya Kanuni ya

45 na mtu anayehusika na shughuli hiyo ya ardhi ambaye si mwenye hakimiliki ya kimila auhakimiliki isiyo ya asili, basi Afisa

atampelekea taarifa yule mwenye hakimiliki kuhusu jambo hilo na hatachukua hatua zozoteza kusajili shughuli hiyo ya ardhi mpaka mwenye hakimiliki au mwakilishi wake atoe ushahidiwa kutosha kwamba alijiingiza katika shughuli hiyo ya kibiashara kwa hiari yake na kwamba

alijua kwa ufasaha matokea ya shughuli hiyo.

47. Shughuli za miliki za ardhi

(1) Afisa atawajibika–

(a) kujiridhisha kwamba nyaraka zote muhimu zinazohusiana na shughuli yoyote ya ardhi,zimewasilishwa;

(b) kuambatisha nakala ya ushahidi kimaandishi kuhusu shughuli ya ardhi inayohusika(itakayotolewa na mwenye hakimiliki ya kimila au mwenye hakimiliki isiyo asili) kwenye

waraka unaohusiana nayo, na kuipa namba ya nakala hiyo;

(c) kuambatanisha kumbukumbu kimaandishi iliyosainiwa na Afisa kwenye waraka

iliyorejewa katika ibara ya (b) hapo juu, ikinukuu kwa muhtasari yaliyomo kwenyeshughuli ya ardhi, na kumbukumbu ambayo itakuwa ushahidi tosha wa awali kwa

shughuli ya ardhi imesajiliwa ipasavyo;

(d) Kuandika kwenye ukurasa wa Kitabu cha Muhtasari ambapo kwa mujibu wa kanuni ya

37, kumbukumbu za waraka unaohusiana na shughuli ya ardhi husika zimewekwazikionyesha namba ya usajili wa shughuli ya ardhi, tarehe ya shughuli ya ardhi natarehe ya usajili shughuli ya ardhi.

(2) Afisa hatakuwa na uwezo wa kuambatisha ushahidi wowote kimaandishi kwa shughuli yaardhi kwenye waraka uliyosajili, au kuingiza kwenye Kitabu cha Muhtasari, taarifa yoyote

inayohusu shughuli ya ardhi, endapo ushahidi huo kimaandishi haukuambatishwa na vibali

vilivyorejewa katika kanuni ndogo ya (2) ya kanuni ya 45 popote pale ambapo vibali hivyovinatakiwa, na hatua yoyote ya Afisa kinyume cha hali itakuwa batili.

48. Kipaumbele

(1) Shughuli katika ardhi inayomilikiwa kwa waraka uliyosajiliwa zitakuwa na kipaumbele



baina yao kwa mpangilio wa tarehe na saa zilipopata usajili kwa mujibu wa kanuni ya 42.

(2) Shughuli ya ardhi iliyosajiliwa kwa mujibu wa kanuni ya 42, itapewa kipaumbele juu ya

shughuli nyingine ambayo haikusajiliwa, hata kama shughuli iliyosajiliwa ilikamilishwa, kabla aubaada ya shughuli isiyosajiliwa.

49. Afisa aweza kukataa kusajili nyaraka

Afisa aweza kukataa kusajili au kuingiza katika Daftari waraka wowote kama:

(a) haikuandaliwa katika fomu iliyoainishwa au;

(b) fomu au waraka mwingine umeharibika kwa kuchanwa, kuchafuka, kufifia maandishi

au kuharibika kiasi cha kutoweza kueleweka tena; au

(c) waraka huo unaonyesha kuongezwa maneno kati ya mistari ya waraka, au nafasi

kuwa tupu, maneno kufutwa au kubadilishwa isipokuwa tu kama waliowasilishanyaraka hizo wamesaini au wameweka majina yao kwa mkato mahali penye manenoyaliyoongezwa palipo patupu palipofutwa au kubadilishwa na katika hali hiyo Afisa

ataingiza katika rejesta kumbukumbu ya maneno kuongezwa, mahah kuacha patupu,kufutwa au kubadilishwa.

50. Uwezo wa Afisa kusahihisha makosa

Endapo mtu yeyote atadai kuwepo kosa au upungufu ulifanyika kwenye usajili au upungufukwenye daftari umesababishwa na udanganyifu au kosa Afisa akiridhika kuwa dai limethibitisha

kikamilifu atasahihisha kosa hilo la upungufu au usajili.

51. Usajili hautaondoa kasoro au kuhalalisha

Usajili hautaondoa hitilafu yoyote katika waraka uliyosajiliwi au kuhalalisha waraka ambaovinginevyo usingekuwa halali isipokuwa tu kwa kiwango kinachokubalika kwa mujibu wa Sheriana Kanuni hizi.

52. Daftari laweza kukaguliwa na nakala kupatikana

Daftari laweza kukaguliwa na kuchunguzwa na mwombaji yeyote wakati wa saa za kawaidaza kazi na nakala halisi zilizothibitishwa na Afisa kuwa nakala halisi za wowote uliosajiliwa au

sehemu yake vinaweza kupatikana kama vikitakiwa, lakini waraka uliohifadhiwa kwenye daftariau ulioambatishwa kwenye waraka ulisajiliwa na kuhifadhiwa katika daftari hautaruhusiwa

kuondolewa katika daftari.

53. Nyaraka mbadala ya iliyosajiliwa

Endapo waraka asili uliyosajiliwa umepotea, umechanika au umeteketea, Afisa aweza

kuandaa nakala itakayokuwa na maelezo yote kutokana na taarifa katika kumbukumbu zotekatika ofisini na vyanzo vingine.



54. Nakala ya wataka uliyosajiliwa

(1) Endapo nakala iliyosajiliwa imepotea, imechanika au imeteketea, Afisa aweza, kutokana

na maombi ya mmilikaji au mkazi, yakiambatishwa na tamko rasmi kwenye fomu iliyoainishwakwenye Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni hizi, kuandaa nakala yenye maelezo yote yaliyomokwenye hati asili au hati mbadala iliyosajiliwa.

(2) Afisa atathibitisha kwenye nakala kwamba ni nakala ya waraka uliosajiliwa.

(3) Afisa atatangaza ombi hilo kwa gharama ya mwombaji na tangazo hilo litalolewa katikagazeti linalosomeka kwa wingi katika eneo hilo na nakala inayoombwa itatolewa kwa sikuthelathini baada ya tangazo.

55. Kupatikana waraka uliyosajiliwa

(1) Endapo waraka asili uliyosajiliwa na kupotea ukipatikana, Afisa ataufanyia marekebishona atafuta hati mbadala iliyosajiliwa.

(2) Waraka mbadala uliosajiliwa na kututwa utatunzwa katika masjala.

56. Kupatina nakala ya waraka uliosajiliwa

(1) Endapo nakala ya waraka uliosajiliwa na kupotea inapatikana, Afisa ataufanyiamarekebisho kwa kuingiza taarifa mpya na kufuta nakala mbadala.

(2) Nakala mbadala iliyofutwa itatunzwa katika masjala.

57. Nakala ya waraka potevu uliosajiliwa

Endapo waraka wowote uliosajiliwa chini ya Kanuni hizi, nakala yake iliyothibitishwa na Afisaitakubalika katika ushahidi wa mambo yaliyomo mbele ya Mahakama zote Tanzania kwakuzingatia tofati za haki na kisheria.

58. Nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka uliosajiliwa kukubalika katika kesi ya madai

Kila nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka wowote uliosajiliwa na inayoonekana kwambaimesainiwa na Afisa itapokeleka kama ushahidi katika kesi yoyote ya madai mbele ya Baraza

au Mahakama bila uthibitisho wa usahihi wa nakala hiyo au usahihi wa saini hiyo, isipokuwa tukama itadaiwa kwamba waraka asili umeghushiwa au kwamba nakala inayoonekana kusainiwa

na Afisa in ya kughushi na siyo sahihi.

59. Matumizi ya nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka uliosajiliwa katika kesi za madai

Katika kesi ya madai, upande unaopendekeza matumizi ya nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka

uliosajiliwa utatoa nakala ya waraka huo kwa upande mwingine na nakala hiyo itapokelewakatika ushahidi endapo Baraza au Mahakama itaridhika kwamba nakala imetolewa mapemakabla upande unaopinga kukagua daftari asili ilikopatikana nakala.



60. Muda wa Masjala kuwa wazi

Masjala itakuwa wazi kwa umma kwa siku, saa na muda kadri Halmashauri ya Kijiji

itakavyoamua.

SEHEMU YA VI

USULUHISHI WA MASLAHI NA MIPAKA KATIKA ARDHI

61. Taarifa kwa pande zinazohusika

Kwa malengo ya fungu la 54 la Sheria, Kamati kwa mujibu wa fungu la 7(2) Sheria itatoa

taarifa kwa kutumia fomu maalum iliyoainishwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni hizi.

62. Kuweka mipaka

(1) Kamati itatembelea ardhi inayohusika na uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka katika ardhi

ikitafuta, ikibaini/ikithibitisha, ikiamua na kuweka mipaka ya ardhi.

(2) Katika kuweka mipaka, Kamati itatumia alama za mipaka ambazo kwa kawaida

zinatumika kwenye maeneo husika, ikiwa ni pamoja na mipaka ya njia, mifereji, uzio katani namimea mingine na mawe.

(3) Katika kuweka alama za mipaka, sehemu ya mzunguko, kona na mabadiliko mengine yamwelekeo yatapewa umuhimu, na kati ya sehemu hizo alama zitawekwa kwa umbali ambao

utaziwezesha kuonekana kwa urahisi alama moja baada ya nyingine.

63. Uthibitisho wa mipaka

Kamati, mwombaji, na angalau watu wazima wawili ambao ni wakazi wa eneo waliohudhuria

ukaguzi wa ardhi, watathibitisha usahihi wa mipaka kwa kusaini katika fomu iliyoainishwakwenye Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni hizi.

64. Kusafisha na kuweka alama kwenye mipaka

Gharama zinazohusiana na shughuli zilizotajwa katika Kanuni ya 61 ya Kanuni hizi zitalipwana mwombaji au kama itakavyokubalika kati ya Halmashauri ya Kijiji na mwombaji.

65. Kutunza mipaka

Utunzaji wa mipaka utakuwa jukumu la wenye hakimiliki ya kimila.

66. Kipimo cha Upimaji

Kipimo cha upimaji kitakuwa mita.

67. Matavarisho ya Muhoro

(1) Katika utaratibu wa kuweka mipaka ya ardhi Kamati itaandaa mchoro wa ardhi



inayohusika.

(2) Mchoro utapaswa–

(a) utachorwa na kuambatishwa na fomu iliyoainishwa kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza la

kanuni hizi;

(b) utachorwa kwenye karatasi inayodumu muda mrefu kwa kutumia kifaa cha kuandikia

kitakachoweka alama ya kudumu;

(c) utakuwa wa mistari inayounganishwa na kufanya umbo lililofungwa;

(d) kuonyesha sambamba na mstari, umbali uliopimwa katika mita, kati ya alama moja nanyingine zilizochorwa kwa alama za msalaba;

(e) kuonyesha majina ya wakazi wa vipande vyote vya ardhi jirani;

(f) kuonyesha mwelekeo unaokaribia kaskazini;

(g) kuonyesha alama za rejea zinazoonekana na za kudumu kama zipo, kwenye ardhi aukaribu, ikiwa ni pamoja na njia za miguu, barabara, mapito ya mifugo, mito, majengo

ya kudumu, majabali na miti.

68. Taratibu za upimaji

(1) Mipaka itapimwa kwa kutumia futi kamba na haitakuwa lazima kuchora mchoro kwa

vipimo au kubainisha ukubwa wa eneo.

(2) kama mwombaji anataka kujua ukubwa wa ardhi husika aweza kufanya taratibu na kulipa

gharama za huduma ya Mpima Ardhi.

69. Kuweka kumbu-kumbu ya haki za njia

Haki ya njia itaonyeshwa katika mchoro kwa mistari ya nukta na itafafanuliwa wazi wazi.

70. Mgao wa mchoro

Kamati, itatayarisha nakala tatu za mchoro ambazo zitagawiwa kwa Kamati, mwombaji na

Halmashari ya Kijiji.

71. Kumbu-kumbu za uamuzi wa ntaslahi na mipaka katika ardhi

(1) Kumbukumbu ya uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka katika ardhi itatayarishwa kwa kila

kipande cha ardhi ambacho kinahusika na dai moja au zaidi na itaonyesha:

(a) jina la mdai, au kama kuna zaidi ya mtu mmoja anayedai ardhi hiyo, majina ya wadai

wote;



(b) aina na kiasi cha maslahi kinachodaiwa katika ardhi;

(c) kiasi cha ardhi kinachodaiwa;

(d) muda ambao au muda wanaodai maslahi katika ardhi hiyo;

(e) mahali na mipaka ya kipande husika cha ardhi;

(f) njia na mipaka ya Haki za njia zozote au Haki za fursa ya njia au huduma nyingine za

umma zinazodaiwa kuwepo kwenye, juu au chini ya ardhi;

(g) Uamuzi wa Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji au kadri itakavyokuwa uamuzi wa Afisa Mshauri

wa Uamuzi wa Kijiji kuhusu dai au madai hapo pamoja na maelezo kwa ufupi yasababu za uamuzi huo.

(2) Kumbukumbu ya uamuzi wa maslahi katika ardhi na mipaka lazima iambatishwe na

mchoro ulioandaliwa kwa mujibu wa kanuni ya 67.

(3) Kumbukumbu ya uamuzi wa maslahi ya ardhi na mipaka itakuwa kwenye fomuiliyoonyeshwa kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni Hizi.

72. Taarifa ya upimaji wa ardhi nayomilikiwa kwa hakimiliki ya kimila inayosajiliwa

(1) Endapo haki ya kumiliki ya kimila imetolewa baada ya uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka yaardhi, na baadaye ardhi ikapimwa, mkazi atatoa taarifa kwa Afisa wa eneo lililopimwa na

kuwasilisha ramani iliyothibitishwa.

(2) Taarifa iliyotolea kwa mujibu wa kanuni ndogo ya kwanza itaandikwa kwenye fomu

iliyoainishwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni Hizi.

73. Namba ya Uthitibisho wa Kipande cha Ardhi

Kipande cha ardhi ambacho, baada ya uamuzi wa maslahi na mipaka ya ardhi, hakimiliki ya

kimila imetolewa na kusajiliwa katika Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji, kitaonyesha namba ya pekee yaUtambulisho wa Kipande cha Ardhi (UKA) itakayotolewa na Afisa.

74. Mgawanyo

Endapo kunafanyika mgawanyo wa hakimiliki ya kimila iliyosajiliwa, namba ya utambulishoya awali (UKA) itafutwa na namba nipya ya utambulisho (UKA) itatolewa kwa kila eneo jipya

litokanalo na mgawanyo, kwa kutumia fomu iliyoainishwa kwenye Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanunihizi.

SEHEMU YA VII

MENGINI YO

75. Waziri aweza kuweka vya juu vya kumiliki ardhi



(1) Waziri aweza, kwa kuwasiliana na Waziri mwenye dhamana ya kilimo, kwa Amriiliyotangazwa kwenye Gazeti , kuweka kiwango cha juu cha ardhi ambacho mtu yeyote anaweza

kukalia kwa hakimiliki ya kimila au hakimiliki isiyo ya asili.

(2) Katika kutekelelza jukumu lake chini ya kanuni ndogo ya (1), Waziri atazingatia:–

(a) taarifa na miongozo yote inayopatikana kuhusu tathmini ya ardhi kuhusu matumizimaalum kwa mkulima mdogo, shughuli za ukulima, za ufugaji na za misitu katika

sehemu na maeneno mbalimbali ya uchumi na kilimo Tanzania ili kusukumamaendeleo halisi ya ukulima na matumizi kamili ya ardhi;

(b) haja ya kuhimiza na kuhakikisha utunzaji wa mazingira;

(c) kuhusiana na ardhi itayotumika kwa maendeleo ya miji, miongozo iliyopo ya ukubwa

wa viwanja kwa aina mbalimbali za uendelezaji wa miji kama ilivyoandaliwa na Idara va

Mipango Miji;(d) haja ya kusaza ardhi katika kila kijiji kwa ajili ya ugavi wa siku za usoni;

(e) mila na desturi zilizopo vijiini katika wilaya au mkoa ambako anapendekeza kuweka

viwango vya juu vya ardhi kama mipaka ambayo mwanakijiji yeyote au familiitaruhusiwa kumiliki.

(3) Viwango vya juu tofauri vya ardhi vyaweza kuwekwa:

(a) kwa kila mkoa; na

(b) kila wilaya mkoani; na

(c) kila kijiji wilayani

(4) Viwango vya juu vinavyowekwa chini ya kanuni hii vitarejewa mara kwa mara nakurekebishwa inapobidi.

76. Taratibu za idhini ya viwango vya juu vya kumiliki ardhi

(1) Mpaka hapo matangazo yatakapotolewa na kutangazwa kwa mujibu wa kanuni ya 74,

Halmashauri yoyote ya kijiji haitatoa au kukubali kutoa an kuidhinisha uhamishaji wa hakimilikiya kimila au kutoa au kuidhinisha utoaji wa hakimiliki isiyo asili katika ardhi ya kijiji au hakimilikiya kimila zaidi ya hekta ishirini au kiwango itakachomfanya mwanakijiji apate zaidi ya hekta

ishirini au kiwango cha juu alichonacho mwanakijiji, bila idhini ya Halmashauri ya Wilaya au

kamishna kwa mujibu wa Kanuni hii.(2) Maombi yakipokelewa kwa Halmashauri ya kijiji ya kutoa ardhi au kwa hakimiliki ya kimila

au kwa hakimiliki isiyo ya asili au ya kuidhinisha utoaji wa hakimiliki isiyo ya asili kwa kiwango

cha hekta ishirini na moja (21) hadi hekta hamsini (50), Halmashauri ya kijiji itawasilishamaombi hayo kwenye Halmashauri ya Wilaya yenye mamlaka katika wilaya ambako kijiji kipo,



pamoja na mapendekezo yake juu ya maombi hayo na haitaidhinisha maombi hayo isipokuwakwa maandishi kwamba ameafiki maombi hayo.

(3) Maombi yakipelekwa kwa Halmashauri ya kijiji ya kutoa ardhi ama kwa hakimiliki yakimila au kwa hakimiliki isiyo ya asili au ya kuidhinisha utoaji wa hakimiliki isiyo ya asili kwa

kiwango kinachozidi hekta hamsini (50), Halmashauri ya kijiji itawasilisha maombi hayo kwaKamishna pamoja na maendelezo yake juu ya maombi hayo na haitaidhinisha maombi hayo

isipokuwa kwa maandishi kwamba imeafiki maombi hayo.

77. Misingi ya jumla ya usuluhishi

(1) Katika utekelezaji wa shughui za usuluhishi chini ya Sheria au Kanuni hizi, mtu

aliyeteuliwa kutimiza majukumu chini ya fungu la 7 au kanuni ya 16, au Kamati katikakutekeleza majukumu yake chini ya fungu la 54, na halmashauri katika kutekeleza majukumuyake chini ya fungu la 14 na la 60 la Sheria–

(a) ataongozwa na misingi ya kutokuwa na upendeleo, usawa na haki, kwa kuzingatia,pamoja na mambo mengine, haki na wajibu wa pande zote, mila na sheria za Bunge

na utamaduni nchi, na kwa kutia; maanani inavyopaswa vipengele vya Katiba ya nchi,na mazingira ya shauri pamoja na mahusiano na migogoro ya awali baina ya pande

husika;

(b) wataendesha shughuli za usuluhishi kwa namna watakavyoona inafaa, kwa kuzingatia

matakwa ya pande husika, mazingira ya mgogoro na umuhimu wa kufikia usuluhishiwa haraka wa mgogoro;

(c) watakuwa na kuwasiliana na pande husika mbalimbali au kwa pamoja;

(d) wakati wowote wa uendeshaji wa shauri watatoa mapendekezo kwa mdomo au kwamaandishi, kwa kutoa au bila kutoa sababu,

(e) kutokana na usuluhishi, inapodhihirika kwamba kuna vipengele vya mapatano au

usuluhishi ambavyo vyaweza kukubalika na pande zote wataandaa dondoo zamapatano au usuluhishi na watawaeleza pande zote dondoo hizo, na baada yakupokea maoni yao, watarekebisha dondoo kwa kuzingatia maoni hayo.

(2) Endapo mapatano au usuluhishi umefikiwa na pande zote, kamati au Halmashauri, kadriitakavyokuwa, watatayarisha mkataba wa maandishi, ambapo baada ya kusainiwa na pande

zote, utawawajibisha wote.

(3) Mkataba wa maandishi utathibitishwa na msuluhishi aliyeteuliwa, na zilizothibitishwa za

mkataba zitagawiwa kwa pande zote.

78. Maandalizi ya nyaraka

Afisa au Msajili wa Wilaya watasaidia katika kuandaa nyaraka na fomu kwa niaba ya

halmashauri ya kijiji, Kamati, Halmashauri au mwombaji au mmiliki wa ardhi atakayetokea



kutumia haki zake chini ya sheria, ili kurahisisha usuluhishi na usajili wa ugawaji na shughuli zakibiashara za maslahi katika ardhi.

79. Fomu zita-kazotumika kuhusiana na Sheria na Kanuni hizi

Fomu zilizoorodheshwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza ndizo fomu zinazopaswa kutumika kwa

utekelezaji wa majukumu chini ya sheria na kanuni zinazorejewa nayo.

80. Mabadiliko ya fomu

Fomu zilizoorodhesliwa katika Jedwali la Kwanza la Kanuni hizi zaweza kufanyiwa

mabadiliko au marekebisho katika lugha ili kukidhi mahitaji ya kila shauri, na mabadiliko yoyotekatika fomu ambayo hayagusi mambo ya msingi hayataathiri uhahali wake.

81. Ada

Ada zilizotajwa katika safu ya pili ya Jedwali la pili la Kanuni hizi ndizo zitakazokuwa adazinazotakiwa kulipwa kwa ajili ya shughuli zozote zilizoorodheshwa katika safu ya kwanza ya

Jedwali la Pili.

82. Faini

(1) Unapotokea uvunjaji wa masharti, kama ulivyoorodheshwa katika safu ya 2 ya Jedwali la

Tatu la Kanuni hizi kwa hakikimali ya kimila, Halmashauri ya Kijiji inaweza kutoza faini kamailivyoainishwa katika Jedwali la Tatu la Kanuni hizi.

(2) Halmashauri ya Kijiji itakuwa na uhuru wa kumtoza mkazi kiasi cha faini ambacho nipungufu kuliko kilichoko kwenye jedwali lililotajwa.

83. Ushuhuda wa Kusaini Nyaraka

Ushuhuda na uandaaji wa nyaraka utafanyika kama ulivyoainishwa katika Fungu la 63 laSheria ya Ardhi ya Mwaka na fungu 91 hadi 94 la Sheria ya Usajili wa Ardhi, Sura Na. 334.

JEDWALI LA KWANDA

FOMU

Fomu ya Ardhi ya Vijiji Na. 1

JAMHURI YA MUUGANO WA TANZANIA SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI, 1999

(SURA YA 114)

AMRI YA KUITWA KWENYE KAMATI YA UAMUZI YA KIJIJI

(Chini ya fungu la 53)



Kwa: Bwana/Bibi/Bi 1(57) ........................................................................................

Mkutano wa Kijiji cha ...........................................................................................

Umeidhinisha ombi kuhusu uamuzi kwa eneo maalum la ardhi lililoko ......................

linalokaribia takriban ......................................................... (ukubwa/eneo 2(58)).

Unaamuriwa kuhudhuriwa wewe binafsi na kutoa ushahidi wakati wa usikilizaji wa uamuzi

wa

eneo maalum la ardhi lililotajwa hapo juu. Shauri hilo litasikilizwa ..............................

(mahali) siku ya .................................. tarehe .................. saa ..............................

Tafadhali zingatia kwamba kutoa maelezo ya uongo katika ushahidi wako kunawezakusababisha ufunguliwe mashtaka ya jinai.

Jina la Saini ya Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Uamuzi ya kijiji ...................................

Tarehe: ...........................................................................................................

Imepokelewa na ..............................................................................................

Saini: .............................................................................................................

Tarehe ...........................................................................................................


JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI, 1999

(SURA YA 114)

AMRI YA KUWASILISHA NYARAKA MBELE YA KAMATI YA KIJIJI


Kwa: Bwana/Bibi/Bi 1(59) .......................................................................................

Mkutano wa Kijiji cha ............................................... umeidhinisha ombi la kufanya

uamuzi kwa eneo maalum lililoko ........................................... linalokaribia takriban

............................................................. (ukubwa/eneo 2(60)).



Unaamriwa kuwasilisha nyaraka wewe binafsi au kupitia mwakilishi wako wakati wakusikiliza madai yanayohusu uamuzi kwa eneo maalum la ardhi siku ya ..................

Shauri litasikilizwa ............................................ (mahali) tarehe ...........................

saa ....................................................................................................................

Tafadhali zingatia kwamba kuacha, bila sababu za msingi kuwasilisha nyaraka

zinazotakiwa kunaweza kusababisha mashtaka ya jinai yafunguliwe dhidi yako.

Jina na Saini ya Mwenyekiti, Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji ....................................

tarehe ................................................................................................................

Imepokelewa na .............................................................................................

Saini .............................................................................................................

Tarehe ..........................................................................................................



(SURA YA 114)

WITO WA KUHUDHURIA MBELE YA KAMATI YA UAMUZI YA KIJIJI(Chini ya fungu la 53)

Kwa: Bwana/Bibi/Bi 1(61) .......................................................................................

amewasilisha ombi kwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha ........................................... kwa

ajili ya uamuzi wa eneo maalum la ardhi ambayo ameiombea hakimiliki ya kimila, lililoko

...................................... linalokaribia takriban .................................. (ukubwa/eneo 2(62)).

Mkutano wa Kijiji cha .......................................................... umeamua kuanza utaratibu wa

uamuzi kwa eneo maalumu la ardhi. Unatakiwa uhudhurie mbele ya kamati hiyo wewe

binafsi tarehe ................................. saa ........................................ kueleza madai yako.

Zingatia kwamba endapo hutafika bila sababu za msingi unaweza kuhesabiwa kwambaumefuta madai yako.



Jina na Saini ya Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji ...............................

Tarehe .........................................................................................................

Imepokelewa na ............................................................................................

Cheo ...........................................................................................................

Tarehe .........................................................................................................



(SURA YA 114)

WITO WA KUHUDHURIA KUSIKILIZWA MBELE YA BARAZA LA ARDHI LA KIJIJI


Kwa: Bwana/Bibi/Bi 1(63) .......................................................................................

Unatakiwa uhudhurie mbele ya Baraza wewe binafsi siku ya ...................................

tarehe .................................. saa .............................. kutoa ushahidi na kulisaidia

Baraza katika suala la mgogoro kati ya .................................................................

na ......................................................................................................................

Tafadhali zingatia kwamba kutoa maelezo ya uongo katika ushahidi wako kunaweza

kusababisha mashtaka ya jinai yafunguliwe dhidi yako.

Jina ...............................................................................................................

Saini: ............................................................................................................

Sifa: Mwitishaji Baraza la Ardhi la Kijiji cha ......................................................

Tarehe ..........................................................................................................

Imepokelewa na ............................................................................................

Sifa: .............................................................................................................



Tarehe: .........................................................................................................



(SURA YA 114)

KIAPO CHA SHAHIDI

(Chin ya fungu la 56)

Mimi ...................................................................... ninaapa kwa dhati kwamba ushahidi

nitakaotoa kuhusu suala lililoko mbele ya ................................................... (Kamati/Afisa),utakuwa kweli na kweli tupu na itakuwa kweli tu Mungu nisaidie.



(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA YA KUSUDIO LA KUTANGAZA ARDHI YENYE MADHARA


Kumb. Na. .........................

Mimi ..................................................................................... NINATOA TAARIFA kwambaninakusudia kulitangaza eneo la ardhi lifuatalo kuwa ardhi yenye madhara:

(a) Mahala eneo lilipo .................................................................................

(b) Mipaka na ukubwa wa eneo hilo .............................................................

(c) Sababu za kutoa tamko ........................................................................

Tamko litatolewa baada ya siku sitini (60) kuanzia tarehe ya kutangazwa taarifa hiikwenye Gazeti. Watu na mamlaka zote zitakazopewa taarifa hii zaweza kuwasilisha maelezokwa Kamishna wa Ardhi kuhusiana na tamko lililopendekezwa maelezo ambayo inabidi

yawasilishwe katika muda wa siku thelathini tokea tarehe ya kupewa taarifa hii.





KWA AMRI YA RAIS

..........................................

Waziri wa Ardhi

Imetolewa na: ................................................................................................

Jina na saini/alama ya kidole gumba cha mkazi ................................................

Tarehe ...........................................................................................................


JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI, 1999(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA KUHAWILISHA ARDHI YA KIJIJI KUWA ARDHI YA KAWAIDA AU ARDHI YAHIFADHI


Kumb. Na............................

Mimi ...............................................................................................................NATOA TAARIFA kwamba Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania anakusudia

kuhawilisha ardhi ya kijiji ifuatayo kuwa ardhi ya kawaida/hifadhi 1(64).

(a) Mahala ................................................................................................

(b) Mipaka na ukubwa ...............................................................................

(c) Sababu za uhawilisho ..........................................................................

Uhawilisho waweza kufanywa siku tisini (90) baada ya kutangazwa kwa taarifa hii katikaGazeti.

Mtu yeyote anayekalia ardhi yoyote ya kijiji inayoweza kuhawilishwa kwa mujibu wa taarifa

hii aweza kupeleka kwa Kamishna wa Ardhi na Halmashauri ya Kijiji akieleza kwa nini eneo

lake lisiwe sehemu ya eneo litakalohawilishwa au kwa nini eneo lote lililotajwa lisihawilishwe.

Mtu yeyote atakayepatwa na upotevu kwa sababu ya pendekezo la uhamilisho aweza

kuomba fidia kutoka kwa Kamishna wa Ardhi kwa kutumia fomu ya maombi yenye kichwacha habari "OMBI LA MKAZI WA ARDHI KULIPWA FIDIA"







(SURA YA 114)

TAMKO LA MGONGANO WA MASLAHI


Mimi ..............................................................................................................

wa ................................................................... nikiwa mjumbe wa Halmashauri ya

Kijiji/Mjumbe wa Kamati ya Halmashauri ................................................................

inayoshughulikia masuala ya ardhi katika kijiji cha ..................................................

NATAMKA KWAMBA mimi binafsi/jamaa yangu wa karibu ......................................

(taja uhusiano) nina maslahi katika suala linalohusu ardhi kama ifuatavyo:–

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

(Aina ya mgongano wa maslahi na maelezo ya ardhi)

Tamko limetolewa hapa ............................................. tarehe ................................

mwezi wa ..................................................... mwaka 20 .....................................

Saini .............................................................................................................

Imepokelewa na: ......................................................................... Mwenyekiti waHalmashauri ya kijiji.

Tarehe: .........................................................................................................





(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA KWA HALMASHAURI YA KIJIJI KUDAI FIDIA

(Chini ya fungu la 4 na la 6)

Kumb. Na. .........................

Mimi ..................................................................................................................

wa................................................................... NINATOA TAARIFA kwamba Waziri

wa Ardhi anatoa taarifa ya kusudio la kuitangaza ardhi ifuatayo kuwa ardhi yenye

madhara/inayopendekeza 1(66) kuhawilisha ardhi ya kijiji ifuatayo kuwa ardhi ya kawaida auardhi ya hifadhi.

(a) Mahali eneo lilipo ..................................................................................

(b) Mipaka na ukubwa wa eneo ...................................................................

ZINGATIA KWAMBA unayo haki ya kudai fidia kwa upotevu uliosababishwa na

kuitangaza ardhi ya pamoja kuwa ardhi ya madhara/kuhahiwilisha ardhi ya pamoja.

Madai yako lazima uyawakilishe kwangu katika kipindi kisichozidi siku 60 tangu yakupokelewa taarifa hii.

Imetolewa hapa ....................... siku ya ................. tarehe ..............................

mwezi wa ........................................ mwaka 200 ................................................

...........................................

Kamishna wa Ardhi

Imepokelewa siku ya ....................................... ya tarehe ................................

mwezi wa ......................................... mwaka 200 ................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji .........................................................................................

Afisa Mtendaji wa kijij i ....................................................................................





(SURA YA 114)

OMBI LA HALMASHAURI YA KIJIJI YA KULIPWA FIDIA

(Chini ya fungu la 4 na 6)

Kumb. Na. .........................

1. Jina la Kijiji ...........................................................................................

2. Wilaya kilipo Kijiji .................................................................................

3. Mahali ilipo ardhi ya pamoja inayohusika na madai ..................................

4. Ukubwa/Eneo linakaribia takriban ...........................................................

5. Matumizi ya sasa ya ardhi .....................................................................

6. Upotevu uliosababishwa na uhawilishaji ardhi/kutangazwa ardhi yenye madhara

............................................................................................................

7. Taja haki za pamoja ambazo kwazo Halmashauri ya Kijiji inadai fidia na kiasi cha

fidia inayodaiwa ...........................................................................................

8. Ambatisha taarifa yoyote inayofafanua misingi ya madai ya fidia ................

.............................................................................................................

Tarehe ..................................................................................................

Majina na Saini za wajumbe wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji ................................

.............................................................................................................

Tarehe ..................................................................................................

Uamuzi wa Kamishna wa Ardhi:

Madai yote yameidhinishwa. 1(67)

Sehemu zifuatazo za madai zimeidhinishwa (taja sehemu zilizoidhinishwa na toa sababuza kutoidhinishwa kwa sehemu zingine za madai). 2(68)



...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

Madai yote yamekataliwa kwa sababu zifuatazo:3(69)

..........................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................

Jina na Saini ya Kamishna wa Ardhi .....................................................................

Tarehe ...............................................................................................................


JAMHURI YA MUUGANO WA TANZANIA SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI, 1999

(SURA YA 114)

KIBALI CHA FIDIA


KWA: .................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

Maombi yako ya kulipwa fidia yamekubaliwa/yamekataliwa kwa misingi ifuatayo:

...........................................................................................................................



...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

Kamishna wa Ardhi Afisa Mteule ...........................................................................



(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA KWA MKAZI WA ARDHI KUDAI FIDIA


Kumb. Na. ...........................

Mimi ...............................................................................................................

NINATOA TAARIFA kwamba Waziri wa Ardhi ametoa taarifa kusudio la kuitangaz ardhiifuatayo kuwa ardhi yenye madhara inayopendekezwa kuhawilisha ardhi ya kijiji kuwa ardhi

ya kawaida au ardhi ya hifadhi:

(a) Mahali: .................................................................................................

(b) Mipaka na ukubwa: ...............................................................................

ZINGATIA: kwamba una haki ya kudai fidia kwa ajili ya upotevu utakaosababishwa na

tamko la ardhi ya pamoja kuwa ardhi yenye madhara/uhawilishaji wa ardhi ya pamoja.

Madai yako lazima yawasilishwe kwangu kupitia Halmashauri ya Kijiji katika siku sitini (60)

tangu kupokelewa kwa taarifa hii.

Kama utahitaji msaada wakati wa kujaza fomu hii ya madai, unaweza kuomba msaadakutoka kwa Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji au mtu yeyote unayedhani anaweza kukusaidia.

Imetolewa hapa ........................................ siku ya ...........................................

tarehe .............................................. mwaka 20 ..................................................









(SURA YA 114)

CHETI CHA ARDHI YA KIJIJI


Kumb. Na. ..........................

Leo tarehe ................................. ya mwezi .......................... mwaka 20............

Hii ni kuthibitisha kuwa Halmashauri ya kijiji (humu ikirejewa kama "Halmashauri") cha

............................................................... katika Wilava ya ..................................inakabidhiwa kama mdhamini usimamizi wa ardhi yote iliyoelezwa katika jedwalilililoambatishwa (humu ikirejewa kama "ardhi ya kijiji") kadri ya nia na maana halisi ya Sheria

ya Ardhi ya Vijiji na kwa masharti yafuatayo–

(i) Halmashauri itasimamia ardhi ya kijiji kadri ya sheria za mila zinazohusu ardhikwenye eneo nusika;

(ii) Halmashauri italinda mazingira kwa kuhifadhi rutuba ya ardhi na kuzuia

mmomonyoko wa udongo;

(iii) Halmashauri italinda haki za njia;

(iv) Halmashauri italinda na kutunza mipaka ya kijiji;

(v) Halmashauri itatunza na kukihihiifadhi kwa usalama cheti hiki;

(vi) Endapo mipaka ya kijiji imebadilishwa au kurekebishwa, Halmashauri itatuma cheti

kwa Kamishna ili kuidhinisha mabadiliko au marekebisho ya mipaka kwenye cheti;

(vii) Halmashauri itatoa cheti cha hakimiliki ya kimila na kutunza daftari la ardhi ya

pamoja.

(viii) Endapo mipaka ya kijiji imebadilishwa, Halmashauri itatuma cheti kwa Kamishna ilikuidhinisha mabadiliko au marekebisho hayo ya mipaka kwenye cheti;

(ix) Halmashauri itatoa cheti cha hakimiliki ya kimila na kutunza daftari la ardhi ya

pamoja.





SEHEMU YA I: (Ijazwe na mwombaji/waombaji)

1. Jina la Mwombaji:

A. Jina/Majina Kamili ya Mwombaji/waombaji:

(Jina la Familia Kwanza)

(i) ............................................................................................

............................................................................................

Jinsia/Umri: ..........................................................................

(ii) ............................................................................................

Jinsia/Umri: ..........................................................................

(Ongezea itakavyolazimu)

B. Majina kamili ya wana familia ya Mwombaji (Jina la Familia Kwanza)

C. Jina la chombo au taasisi inayoleta maombi

(Angalau wajumbe wawili wa familia wawasilishe maombi)

(i) ............................................................................................

............................................................................................

Jinsia/Umri: ..........................................................................

(ii) Jina la Bodi au Shirika linalowasilisha .....................................

(Ongeza itakavyolazimu)

Jaza kifungu kinachoendana na ombi lako

2. Anuani (kama kawaida si mkazi kijijini)

.............................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................

3. Uraia ....................................................................................................

4.1(71) Kuoa/kuolewa .......................................................................................





Maoni na mapendekezo ya Halmashauri ya Kijiji/Halmashauri ya Wilaya:

......................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................

Majina na Saini ya W ajumbe wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji.

............................................................................. tarehe.................................

............................................................................. tarehe.................................

............................................................................. tarehe.................................

............................................................................. tarehe.................................


JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA

SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI, 1999

(SURA YA 114)

AHADI YA TOLEO YA HAKIMILIKI YA KIMILA


Kumb. Na ............................

KWA: ..................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................

YAH: MAELEZO YA ARDHI (Pamoja na mahali, ukubwa/eneo)

.............................................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................................

Ombi lako la Hakimiliki ya Kimila (humu ikirejewa kama Hakimiliki) juu ya eneo lililoelezwa

hapo juu limeidhinishwa kwa vipengele na masharti ya Hakimiliki kama ifuatavyo:–



(i) Kipindi: bila kikomo/miaka ........................ tangu ..............................

(ii) Kodi ya pango, kama ipo, ni ........................ kwa mwaka iwezayo kurejewa katika

kipindi kisichopungua miaka mitano.

upya baada ya kila miaka kumi

(iii) Matumizi: ardhi itatumika kwa (taja hapa matumizi. kwa mfano kilimo na/au ufugaji).

(iv) Utawajibika kuhakikisha kwamba mipaka ya ardhi inadumu kuwa bayana kipindi

chote cha Hakimiliki.

2. Maelezo yafuatayo yanahitajika:

(a) Majina yako kamili kwa herufi kubwa. (Maombi ya cheti cha hakimiliki ya

kimila kutolewa kwa jina la mtu au watu ambao si waombaji hayatafikiriwa).

(b) Kama ni kwa madhumuni ya wanandoa.

(c) Anwani yako kamili ya makazi

(d) Onyesha:

(i) Kama unataka kumiliki peke yako Hakimiliki

(ii) Kama unataka kumiliki hakimiliki kwa pamoja bila mgawanyo wa hisa,

kama si wanandoa, idhini ya Mahakama lazima ipatikane kwanza;

(iii) Kama unataka kumiliki kwa pamoja kwa hisa, taja kiwango cha hisa zakila mmoja wenu.

3. Malipo yafuatayo yalipwe wakati wa kukubali ahadi

Malipo ya mbele...........................................................................................

Ada ya cheti cha Hakimiliki ..........................................................................

Ada ya Usajili ya Kijiji ..................................................................................

Ushuru wa Serikali kwenye cheti na nakala kama inahusika ............................

Kodi ya pango toka .............................................hadi ..................................

4. Kiasi cha fedha kilichoonyeshwa hapo juu kilipelekwa kwa Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji au

maafisa wateule (Stakabadhi asili ziletwe kwangu pamoja na) maelezo yaliyotajwa

hapo juu.





Ada

vipengele ya kimila ya tarehe

.............................................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................................

Jina/Majina na saini ...............................................................................................

Tarehe...................................................................................................................

Picha

Ada




(SURA YA 114)

CHETI CHA HAKIMILIKI YA KIMILA

(Chini ya Fungu la 25)

Hati ya Kijiji Na ........................................

Leo tarehe ....................................... mwezi ..................................... 20 ..............Hii ni kuthibitisha kwamba Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha ................................... (taja jina

na anwani ya Halmashauri ya Kijiji) imetoa kwa ................................... (jina la Mkazi)

(ahumu ndani .................................................... "Mkazi") hakimiliki ya kimila (itaitwa"hakimiliki") juu ya ardhi ilivyofafanuliwa katika Jedwali humu ndani na Hati hii (itaitwa "ardhi"

kwa kipindi kisicho na mpaka/kwa 1(72) miaka 99/kwa miaka ....................................... tangu

............................ tarehe ............................. mwezi ............................. 20 .......... wa maudhuina tafsiri halisi ya Sheria ya Ardhi ya Vijiji na kwa kuzingatia vipengele vyake na kanuni

zozote zinazotungwa chini ya sheria hiyo au sheria mbadala au marekebisho yake na kwa

mujibu wa masharti yafuatayo

(i) Mkazi/Wakazi watalipa kodi ya mwaka ya Shs ......................... kabla ya tarehe

................. ya mwezi .................... 20 ................ kila mwaka (kama inahusika).

(ii) Ardhi itatumika kwa ajili ya ....................................................................



(iii) Mkazi/Wakazi watawajibika kuhifadhi mazingira (ardhi na maji).

(iv) Mkazi/Wakazi watahakikisha kwamba mipaka ya ardhi inalindwa na kutunzwa pia

kuhakikisha bayana kwa kipindi chote cha hakimiliki.

(v) Mkazi/Wakazi wataheshimu na kuhifadhi haki za njia zilizopo.

(vi) Uhakilishi wa hakimiliki kwa mtu yeyote au kikundi chochote cha watu ambao kwa

kawaida si wakazi wa kijiji lazima uidhinishwe na Halmashauri ya Kijiji.

JEDWALI

(Maelezo kamili ya eneo na mipaka yake)

Jina ........................................................... Muhuri wa Jina ..................

Saini ......................................................... Halmashauri Wadhifa: Khatibu wa

Wadhifa: Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauriya Kijiji

Halmashauriya Kijiji

Anuani Anuani .............................

Tarehe: .................................. Tarehe: ............................

2. Saini/kidole gumba la mkazi .....................................................................

Lakiri Jina: ................................

Saini: ...............................

Wadhifa: Afisa Ardhi wa Wilaya

ZlNGATlA Kanuni ya 83 kuhusu Ushohuda wa Kusaini Nyaraka.




(SURA YA 114)





Kwa: Jina la Mkazi

Anuani

UNATAARIFIWA KW AMBA katika kipindi kisichozidi siku kumi na nne (14) tangu tarehe ya

taarifa hii unatakiwa kulipa kiasi cha Shs ..................................... ikiwa ni kodi ya pango kwahakimiliki ya kimila kama inavyofafanuliwa hapa chini:–

(i) Kodi inayodaiwa kwa

Mwaka .......................................................... Shs. .....................

(ii) Malipo ya awamu sehemu Kodi inayodaiwa ........................ Sh. ................

(iii) Adhabu (Kama ipo) .......................................... Shs ......................

JUMLA ..................................

ZINGATIA: Endapo huitikii kwa kuitekeleza taarifa hii, nakala ya taarifa itawasilishwa kwenye

Mahakama Mamlaka yenye mamlaka katika eneo la Kijiji cha ...................................

na itachukuliwa kuwa ya Mahakama dhidi yako.

Jina na saini .........................................................................................................

Tarehe .................................................................................................................

Afisa Mtendaji wa Kij iji

Imetolewa kwa:

Jina na saini

....................................................................... tarehe ...................................

.................................................... Mkazi

Tafadhali fika na fomu hii unapokuja kulipa kodi yako.




(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA YA UHAKILISHAJI WA HAKIMILIKI YA KIMILA












1. Kwa maombi ambayo si upangishaji

(a) Ombi limekubaliwa/limekataliwa.

(b) Sababu za kukataliwa

..................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................

...................................................................................................................Saini

...................................................................................................................

Mwenyekiti, Halmashauri ya Kijiiji

..................................................................................................................

Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijij i

Tarehe: ......................................................................................................

Imetolewa kwangu/kwetu

Saini ya Mwombaji/Waombaji

..................................................................................................................

Tarehe: ......................................................................................................

2. Kwa maombi ya upangishaji

Ombi la Daraja A: Kifungu cha 32 (5) (a)

(a) Ombi limekubaliwa/limekataliwa

(b) Sababu za kukataliwa:

.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................Saini

.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................



Mwenyekiti, Halmashauri ya Kijiji

.................................................................................................................

Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijij iTarehe: .....................................................................................................


Saini ya Mwombaji/Waombaji

.................................................................................................................

Tarehe: .....................................................................................................

Ombi la Daraja B: Kifungu cha 32 (5)(b)



.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................

Saini .........................................................................................................


.................................................................................................................


Tarehe: .....................................................................................................

(a) Ombi limekubaliwa/limekataliwa na Mkutano wa kijiji


.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................



Imesainiwa kwa niaba ya Mkutano wa Kijiji

.................................................................................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Mkutano wa Kijiji

Imetolewa kwangu/kwetuSaini ya Mwombaji/Waombaji

..................................................................................................................

Tarehe: ......................................................................................................

Ombi la Daraja la C: Kifungu cha 32 (5)(c)



..................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................

Saini .........................................................................................................


..................................................................................................................


Tarehe: ......................................................................................................

(a) Ombi limekubaliwa/limekataliwa na Mkutano wa Kijiji


.................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................



Imesainiwa kwa niaba ya Mkutano wa Kijiji

.................................................................................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Mkutano wa Kijiji

Imetolewa kwangu/kwetuSaini ya Mwombaji/Waombaji

.................................................................................................................

Tarehe ......................................................................................................



SHERIA YA ARDHI YA VIJIJI 1999

(SURA YA 114)

CHETI CHA KIBALI CHA HAKIMILIKI ISIYO

ASILI (UPANGISHAJI/LESENI/HAKI YA MATUMIZI)

Chini ya Kifungu cha 31 (9))

Kumb. Na. ........................

UKA. Na. ..........................

1. Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha ....................................................................... katika

Wilaya ya ...........................................................................................................

INATOA KIBALI cha ............................................. (taja aina ya hakimiliki isiyo asili)

iliyotolewa na .....................................................................................................

.......................................................................... wa .........................................

kwa ................................................................................ wa ............................

.........................................................................................................................









Saini ya mwombaji .................................................... tarehe .............................

2. Kwa maombi ya upangishaji

Ombi la Daraja la A: fungu la 32(5)(a)

(a) Limekubaliwa/limekataliwa

(b) Sababu za kukataliwa ............................................................

Sahihi:............................................................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

Sahihi: ..............................................................................................


(a) Limekubaliwa/limekataliwa na Mkutano wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

(b) Sababu za kukataliwa ...........................................................

Saini .............................................................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

Tarehe: ..........................................................................................

Saini: ............................................................................................


Limetolewa kwangu/kwetu

Saini: ...........................................................................................

Mwombaji/Waombaji

Tarehe: ........................................................................................

Ombi Daraja B: fungu la 32(5)(b)

(c) Limekubaliwa/limekataliwa na Mkutano wa Kijiji







(ii) kwa utolewaji wa pango/leseni au haki ya matumizi, mpokeaji atalipa kodi yapango kwa mwaka/mwezi/wiki 2(76) ya T.Shs.

.......................................tarehe au kabla ya tarehe............................... ya kila

mwaka/mwezi/wiki 3(77).

(iii) Mpokeaji ataitunza na kuiweka ardhi katika hali bora.

(iv) upangishaji wowote wa hakimiliki isiyo asili utahilaji kibali cha Halmashauri yaKijiji na ridhaa ya Mkutano wa Kijiji

(v) Taja masharti mengine yoyote .........................................................

1. Ufafanuzi kamili wa ardhi na mipaka yake ya jumla:

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

2. Ukubwa/Eneo la ardhi ni takriban: ......................................................................

3. Ukubwa/eneo la ardhi inayotolewa hakimiliki isiyo asili (kama ni tofauti na aya ya 3 hapo

juu)

Jina: ....................................................... Muhuri Jina .................................

Saini: ........................................................... Saini ...............................

Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kij iji Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijij i

ZINGATIA: Kama kuna makubaliano au mkataba kuhusiana na hakimiliki isiyo asili,

nakala iambatishwe.

Imekubaliwa kwa Azimio la Mkutano wa Kijiji ulioketi tarehe ...................................

mwezi wa ................................................................................ 20 .....................

Jina: ..................................................................................................................

Saini: ................................................................................................................

Sifa: Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji





.........................................................................................................................

.........................................................................................................................

.........................................................................................................................

.........................................................................................................................

2. Natamka/tunatamka kwamba:

(i) Urejeshaji haulengi kumnyang'anya mwanamke yeyote haki za makazi au haki

yoyote nyingineyo chini ya sheria za kimila, ambayo kama si urejeshaji huu wa

ardhi angestahili kuwa nayo;

(ii) Madhumuni au matokeo ya urejeshaji si ya udanganyifu, si ukosefu wa

udanganyifu na wala si kumnyang'anya mtu yeyote hakimiliki isiyo asili

kinyume cha Sheria;

(iii) Nitaendelea/tutaendelea kuwajibika na ukiukaji wowote wa masharti uliotokea

kabla ya tarehe ya urejeshaji;

(vi) Nitaendelea/tutaendelea kuwajibika kulipa riba itokanayo mkopo wowoteniliochukua/tuliochukua kwa dhamana ya hakimiliki hiyo, na kulipa kodi,

ushuru, ada ya malipo yaliyopaswa kulipwa hadi wakati wa urejeshaji

(v) Watu wote wenye hakimiliki isiyo asili kwenye hakimiliki ya kimila wana taarifaya urejeshaji huu na wameafiki kwa maandishi kwa kusaini hapa chini:

Jina .....................................................................................

Saini ....................................................................................

Tarehe ..................................................................................

Jina ......................................................................................

Saini ....................................................................................

Tarehe ..................................................................................

1. Wategemezi wangu/wetu wanayo taarifa ya urejeshaji huu na wameafiki kwa maandishi

kusaini hapa chini:

Jina ......................................................................................

Saini .....................................................................................



Tarehe ...................................................................................

Jina .......................................................................................

Saini ......................................................................................

Tarehe ....................................................................................

(Ongeza majina zaidi ya wategemezi ikibidi)

Kwa Matumizi ya Ofisi

Imeandikwa kwenye Daftari la Ardhi la Kijiji leo tarehe .................................. ya mwezi

................................................ mwaka ................................... 20 .....................

Jina .....................................................................................

Saini ....................................................................................

Sifa: Afisa Ardhi Mtendaji wa Kijiji

Jina ......................................................................................

Saini .....................................................................................

Tarehe ...................................................................................




(SURA YA 114)

BARUA YA ONYO

(Chini ya Kifungu cha 38)

Kumb. Na. ........................

UKA Na. ...........................

Mimi .................................................................................................................



Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha ..................................................... /Afisa

Mteule ...............................................................................................................

NINAKUTAHADHARISHA kwamba umevunja sharti/masharti ya hakimiliki ya kimila (ambayoimesajiliwa katika kumbukumbu za daftari la kijiji) kama ifuatavyo

(1) ................................................................................................................

(2) ................................................................................................................

unashauriwa kama ifuatavyo:–

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imetolewa Tarehe .................. ya mwezi .............. wa .............. mwaka 20 ..........

Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji/Afisa Mteule


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Mkazi/wakazi

Tarehe ...............................................................................................................

Fomu ya Ardhi ya Vijiji No. 32



(SURA YA 114)

KIBALI KWA HATUA YA HALMASHAURI

YA KIJIJI



















(SURA YA 114)

TAARIFA YA UHAKILISHWAJI WA MUDA WA HAKIMILIKI YA KIMILA


Kumb. Na. .........................

UKA Na. ............................

KWA: Jina .....................................................................................................

Anuani..................................................................................................

UNATAKIWA kujieleza kwanini hakimiliki ya kimila unayomiliki isihakilishwe kwa mtu

mwingine kwa kipindi cha miezi/miaka...........................(taja muda inayokusudiwa) kutokanana uvunjaji wa masharti yafuatayo yanayokupa fursa ya kukalia ardhi kwa hakimiliki ya kimila:

1. ......................................................................................................................

2. ......................................................................................................................

Lazima uijibu taarifa hii katika kipindi cha siku....................tangu siku uliyokabidhiwa taarifa

hii.

Jina/Saini .............................................................................................................

Sifa: ....................................................................................................................

Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha .................................................................

Jina/Saini .............................................................................................................

Sifa: .....................................................................................................................

Afisa Mtendaji wa Ki iji cha......................................................................................


Mkazi/wakazi ........................................................................................................

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Tarehe ...................................................................................................................Tarehe ...................................................................................................................













Jina na sahihi ............................................................(Mhuri wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji)

Tarehe ................................................................................................................


Jina na sahihi: .....................................................................................................

Tarehe ................................................................................................................

Katibu, Halmashauri ya Kijiji



Sheria ya Ardhi ya Vijiji, 1999

(SURA YA 114)

OMBI LA KIBALI KUHUSU SHUGHULI YA ARDHI INAYOZIDI

KIWANGO CHA ARDHI KWA INAYOZIDI KIJIJI

(Chini ya Kifungu cha 18(2))

SEHEMU YA I: (Ijazwe na Halmashauri ya Kijiji)

Mimi................................................................... Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya

Kijiji cha ..................................................................................katika Wilaya ya

.......................................NINAOMBA KIBALI kwa shughuli ya ardhi iliyotajwa katika fomu hii.

Kutolewa kwa hakimiliki ya kimila 1(79)

Uhakilishaji wa hakimiliki ya kimila 2(80)

Upangishaji wa hakimiliki ya kimila 3(81)

Upangishaji kwenye ardhi ya Kijiji 4(82)

(Taja shughuli nyingine yoyote ya ardhi ambapo mtu anayeruhusiwa kufidia ardhi atakaliaardhi inayozidi kiwango cha ardhi kwa kijiji)

1. Jina kamili la mwombaji/waombaji binafsi (anza na jina la familia)



(i) ....................................................................................................

Jinsia/umri.....................................................................................

(ii) ....................................................................................................

Jinsia/umri.....................................................................................

(ongeza kadri itakavyolazimu)

2. Anuani (kama kwa kawaida simkazi/wakazi kijiji)/eneo katika Kijiji

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3. Nimeoa/Nimeolewa:

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4. Watoto na umri wao:.......................................................................................

5. Mahali ilipo ardhi inayoombwa:

Eneo ndani ya

Kijiji...............................................................................................................

Wilaya ya: .....................................................................................................

6. Ukubwa/Eneo la ardhi ni takriban:......................................................................

7. Kiwango cha ardhi kinachozidi kiwango cha ardhi kwa Kijiji ambalo mwombaji atatakiwakama kibali kitatolewa:

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8. Matumizi ya ardhi ya sasa k.m. ukulima, ufugaji, ujenzi wa nyumba:......................

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9. Matumizi ya ardhi yanayopendekezwa (kama ni tofauti na matumizi ya sasa)

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Sahihi/Kidole gumba cha mwombaji/waombaji

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Sababu za mwombaji kuomba ardhi inayozidi kiwango cha ardhi kwa Kijiji (ajaze Mwenyekitiwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

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Hoja za Halmashauri ya Kijiji kuunga mkono ombi (ijazwe na Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri yaKijiji):

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Sahihi: ................................................................................................................


Sahihi: ...............................................................................................................


Tarehe: .............................................................

(Ongeza ikibidi)

3. Majina ya watu wenye haki au maslahi kwenye ardhi au kutumia ardhi kwa malengo yoyote

(i) ......................................................................................................

(iii) ......................................................................................................

(iii) ......................................................................................................

(Ongeza kama ikibidi)



Jina na sahihi/kidole gumba cha mwombaji/waombaji

Tarehe: ................................................................................................................

SEHEMU YA II(Kwa matumizi ya Ofisi tu)

A. Uamuzi wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

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Majina na saini za Wajumbe wa Halmashauri ya Kijiji

Tarehe: .....................................................................................................

B. Uamuzi wa Mkutano wa Kijiji (unapohusika)

Majina na saini za Mwenyekiti wa Mkutano wa Kijiji na Afisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji.

Tarehe: .....................................................................................................

C. Uamuzi wa Halmashauri ya Wilaya (unapohusika)

Ombi limekubaliwa/limekataliwa kwa sababu ................................................

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Jina na saini ya Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya

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Tarehe: .....................................................................................................


[Imefutwa.]






(SURA YA 114)

PENDEKEZO LA UAMUZI NGAZI YA KIJIJI


1. Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha.............................................................................

Wilaya ya .................................................................................................

INAPENDEKEZA kwa Mkutano wa Kijiji kwamba taratibu za uamuzi ngazi ya

Kijijini zitumike kuhusu ardhi yote/sehemu maalum ya ardhi ya kijiji

2. Maelezo ya ardhi

Mahali:.....................................................................................................

Kijiji:........................................................................................................

Ukubwa/eneo la ardhi ni takriban................................................................

3. Majina ya wakazi

(i) ............................................................................................................

(ii) ............................................................................................................

4. Majina ya watu wenye haki au maslahi kwenye ardhi au wanaotaka kuitumia ardhi hiyo

kwa lengo lolote:

(i) ............................................................................................................

(ii) ............................................................................................................

5. Sababu za pendekezo:...............................................................................

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6. Taratibu za zitakazofuatwa:

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Mtu yeyote mwenye madai ya kukalia ardhi kwenye ENEO LA UAMUZI lazima aonyeshebayana alama za mipaka ya kipande au kiwanja cha ardhi kabla ya tarehe ya mkutano

uliotangazwa kwa taarifa hii

Saini:..............................................................................................................

Sifa Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Uamuzi ya Kijiji

Tarehe............................................................................................................




(SURA YA 114)

UTHIBITISHO WA MIPAKA


Mkoa Wilaya Kijiji UKA. Na. Jalada Na.

Jina la Mkazi:.........................................................................................................

Mahali ardhi ilipo:....................................................................................................

Mchoro (usiochorwa kwa vipimo):..............................................................................

Maelezo ya haki za njia na haki zingine za kutumia ardhi (kama zipo)

Sisi tuliosaini hapa chini tunathibitisha kwamba mipaka iliyowekwa na kuonyeshwa kwenye

mchoro ni sahilii kwa kadri ya ufahamu wetu wote:

1. Mkazi/Mkazi: Jina..............................Sahihi..................................................











9. Ombi la Daraja B kwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji la kupewapango (FAV. Na. 28).................................................... 32(5)(b) 1,000/=

10. Ombi la Daraja C kwa Halmashauri ya Kijiji la kupewa

pango (FAV. Na. 28).................................................... 32(5)(c) 1,000/=

11. Kuingiza kumbukumbu ya hakimiliki ya kimila katika

sehemu ya 1 ya Daftari la Hati la Daftari la Ardhi yaKijiji...........................................................................

21 Kanuniya 38 1,000/=

12. Kuingiza kumbukumbu ya hakimiliki isiyo ya asili katika

sehemu ya II Daftari la Hati la Daftari la Ardhi laKijiji...........................................................................

21 Kanuniya 38 750/=

13. Kuingiza kumbukumbu ya uhamishaji au shughuli

inayohusu hakimiliki ya kimila au hakimiliki isiyo asili aushughuli nyingine yoyote isiyotajwa katika sehemu ya 3

ya Daftari la Hati la Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji....................21 Kanuni

ya 38 750/=

14. Kuingiza tahadhari katika Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji........... Kanuni 36 750/=

15. Upekuzi wa Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji................................ Kanuni 52 1,000/=

16. Nakala iliyothibitishwa ya waraka katika Daftari la Ardhi

ya Kijiji....................................................................... Kanuni 54

Kila kurasa

500/=

17. Ombi la nakala ya cheti ya hakimiliki ya Kimila (FAV.22)............................................................................. Kanuni 54 650/=

18. Usajili wa mrithi wa hakimiliki ya kimila......................... 750/=

19. Ombi lolote kutoka kwenye Daftari la Ardhi ya Kijiji

ambalo halijatajwa........................................................ 800/=

20. Ombi la uamuzi kwa eneo maalum (FAV Na. 44)............ 49 1,500/=

21. Msaada wa Afisa wa Masijala ya Ardhi ya Kijijikuta-yarisha waraka wowote unaohusu shughuli,

uhamishaji au jambo lolote chini ya Sheria ya Ardhi ya

Vijij i............................................................................ 1,200/=

JEDWALI LA TATU

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