THE COMMUNITY LAND ACT No. 27 of 2016
Date of Assent: 3lst August,2016
Date of Commencement : 2 I st September, 201 6
THE COMMUNITY LAND ACT No. 27 of 2016
Date of Assent: 3lst August,2016
Date of Commencement : 2 I st September, 201 6
THE MINING ACT No. 12 of 2016
Date of Assent: 6th May, 2016
Date of Commencement: 27th May, 2016
COUNTY GOVERNMENTS ACT NO. 17 OF 2012
Date of assent: 24th July, 2012.
Date of commencement: See Section 1.
An Act of Parliament to give effect to Chapter Eleven of the Constitution; to provide for county governments' powers, functions and responsibilities to deliver services and for connected purpose
The Act principally concerns the registration of interests in land. This Act shall apply to: (a) registration of interests in all public land as declared by Article 62 of the Constitution; (b) registration of interests in all private land as declared by Article 64 of the Constitution; and (c) registration and recording of community interests in land.The National Land Commission in consultation with national and county governments may, by order in the Gazette, constitute an area or areas of land to be a land registration unit and may at any time vary the limits of any such units.
This Act makes provision for a wide variety of matters regarding public and private land and community land (as defined respectively by Articles 62, 63, 64 and 260 of the Constitution), and in particular provides of the sustainable administration and management of land and land-based resources. It also provides for (compulsory) acquisition of land.
This Act provides for the validity of mortgages or charges made in Kenya by delivery to a person or his agent of a document or documents of title to immovable property, with intent to create a security thereon. Such mortgages shall not be invalidated by section 59 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, of India, as applied to Kenya.
This Act makes provision for the administration of the adjudication of any area of Trust land designated by the Minister. The Minister may designate, by Order, Trust land to which provisions of this Act apply if: (a) the county council in whom the land is vested so requests; (b) the Minister considers it expedient that the rights and interests of persons in the land should be ascertained and registered; and (c) the Land Consolidation Act does not apply to the area.
This Act concerns limitations applying to legal action such as actions of contract and tort; actions to recover land, registered title and rent; actions to recover money secured by a mortgage or charge or to recover proceeds of the sale of land; actions in respect of trust property or movable property of deceased person; and actions against the government and public authorities, etc. The Act also concerns the application of limitation law to arbitration, the acquisition of easements and registration of title to land or easement acquired under Act.
These Regulations prescribe a form of certificate of title (set out in the Schedule), which shall be used for the continued execution of land transactions.
Amends: Land Registration (Forms) Regulations, 2014 (L.N. No. 104 of 2014). (2014-07-28)
These Regulations amend the Land Registration (Forms) Regulations, 2014 in the form of a lease substituting for the words on page 623 by deleting the words "the government of the Republic of Kenya" the words" the national/county government of" and by making some minor amendments and by making some minor amendments.
Amends: Land Registration (Forms) Regulations, 2014 (L.N. No. 104 of 2014). (2014-07-28)
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