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Regulations to make provision for the "regularisation" of land and the drafting and adoption of schemes for this purposes.The 35 regulations are divided into 5 Parts: Preliminary (I); Regularisation Area (II); Scheme of Regularisation (III); Adjudication (IV); Local Land Register (V).The Minister responsible for lands may, under regulation 3, subject to section 58 of the Land Act, or at the request of the people in a given area declare urban areas or "peri-urban areas" to be a regularisation area. Criteria for decision making in this respect are set out in regulation 4. A Regularisation Area Committee shall be set up for purposes of co-ordination of planning (regs. 7 and 10). The Scheme of regularisation shall contain proposals for the management and development of the area and may include designation of land for sustainable land use, proposed schemes for land polling and land readjustment and their management, including tenurial arrangements, proposed liaison arrangements with sewerage and water management authorities, and other matters set out in regulation 16. Part IV makes provision for the adjudication of interests in land, including the right of occupancy. Regulation 25 provides for the establishment of Land Adjudication Panel in a Land Regularisation Area. In every Land Regularisation Area local land register shall be set up by local authorities.
Implements: Land Act, 1999 (No. 4 of 1999). (1999-05-15)
