Lands (Amendment) Act, 2015

This section gives the Act its short title, says it is to be read with the Lands Act, and states that it comes into operation on 1 January 2016.

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Jurisdiction: Zambia
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: Act 20 of 2015
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Language: en
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This section gives the Act its short title, says it is to be read with the Lands Act, and states that it comes into operation on 1 January 2016. The section amends section 4 to stop the President from alienating certain land unless money consideration and ground rent are received, except for public-purpose alienations. This provision amends section sixteen of the principal Act by changing the word “seventy-five” to “twenty-five” in paragraph (b) of subsection (2).

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(1) This Act may be cited as the Lands (Amendment) Act,
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AI-assisted research summary: This section gives the Act its short title, says it is to be read with the Lands Act, and states that it comes into operation on 1 January 2016.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Lands (Amendment) Act, 2015, and shall be read as one with the Lands Act, in this Act referred to as the principal Act. Short title and commencement Cap. 184 (2) This Act shall come into operation on 1st January, 2016.
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Section four of the principal Act is amended
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AI-assisted research summary: The section amends section 4 to stop the President from alienating certain land unless money consideration and ground rent are received, except for public-purpose alienations.

2. Section four of the principal Act is amended— (a) by the deletion of subsection (1) and the substitution therefor of the following: Amendment of section 4 (1) The President shall not alienate land under subsection (2) or (3) of section three without receiving consideration, in money, for such alienation and ground rent for such land except where the alienation is for a public purpose.; and (b) in subsection (2)— (i) by the insertion in paragraph (g), immediately after the word “purposes”, of the words “by the Government”; and (ii) by the insertion in paragraph (h), immediately after the word “resources”, of the words “by the Government”. Single copies of this Act may be obtained from the Government Printer, P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka, Price K2.00 each. 452 No. 20 of 2015] Lands (Amendment) Amendment of section 16
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Section sixteen of the principal Act is amended in paragraph
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends section sixteen of the principal Act by changing the word “seventy-five” to “twenty-five” in paragraph (b) of subsection (2).

3. Section sixteen of the principal Act is amended in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) by the deletion of the words “seventy-five” and the substitution therefor of the words “twenty-five”.

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