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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 1940
    Uganda

    This Act makes provision for the administration of estates of persons dying outside Uganda in a State listed in the Schedule to this Act and leaving property within Uganda. If no person is rightfully entitled to administer the estate of the deceased person, the consul, vice consul, or consular agent of a listed State may take possession and have the custody of the property of the deceased person. He or she shall immediately apply for letters of administration of the property of the deceased person, limited in such manner and for such time as to the court shall deem fit.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    December, 2011
    Uganda

    This Act provides administration arrangements for the city of Kampala and provides with respect to its development, physical planning. It establishes the Capital City Authority and the Metropolitan Physical Planning Authority. The Minister may, in consultation with the Authority and with the approval of Cabinet, establish divisions within the Capital City and alter the boundaries of those divisions. The Capital City shall have the lower urban councils under the Authority: (a) Division urban councils; (b) ward urban councils; and (c) village urban councils.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2017
    Uganda

    Compulsory acquisition is the power of government to acquire private rights in land for a public purpose, without the willing consent of its owner or occupant. This power is known by a variety of names depending on a country’s legal traditions, including eminent domain, expropriation, takings  and  compulsory purchase.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act amends the Land Act in section 98 to provide that, until the Land Tribunals are established and commence to operate under this Act, Magistrates’ Court and Local Council Courts shall continue to have jurisdiction they had immediately before the commencement of this Act. Also proceedings relating to a land dispute pending at a Magistrates’ Court or a Local Council Court shall continue to be heard by those courts until completion. Also rights of appeal at those courts shall be preserved.

    Amends: Land Act (Cap. 227). (2000-12)

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act amends the Land Act with respect to a wide variety of matters including: Commissioner for Land Registration, organization and procedures of District Land Tribunals, annual nominal ground rent for tenancy, security of occupancy and protection of family (farm) land, restrictions on transfer of family land, and establishment of Land Committees. New sections concern, among other things: establishment of the office of the Registrar of the District Land Tribunals, registration of District Land Tribunals and supervisory powers over land tribunals.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act makes provision with respect to development and spatial planning in Uganda. It establishes the Town and Country Planning Board. The Act shall apply to declared planning areas. In respect of every area declared to be a planning area, there shall be a planning committee or planning committees. The Board shall in respect of any area declared as a planning area, in consultation with the committee or committees, prepare an outline scheme in respect of the area. This scheme must be approved by the Minister.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act concerns the creation, consolidation, discharge and release of mortgages and related matters. It also defines powers of a mortgagee and of the Court in respect of a mortgage. There shall be implied in every mortgage covenants by the mortgagor to protect the mortgagee. One of these covenants concerns a mortgage of land used for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2003
    Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Bolivia, Bhutan, Botswana, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Moldova, North Macedonia, Mongolia, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Aruba, Anguilla, American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Cook Islands, Comoros, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Micronesia, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Niue, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, French Polynesia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, Sint Maarten, Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Africa, Western Africa, Middle Africa

    La présente loi autorise la ratification de la réglementation commune aux Etats membres du CILSS sur l’homologation des pesticides, révisée et adoptée par le Conseil des Ministres du CILSS, le 16 décembre 1999 à N’Djaména (Tchad), dont le but est de mettre en commun (dans un cadre sous-régional de coopération) les expériences et l’expertise des Etats membres pour l’évaluation et l’homologation des pesticides afin d’assurer leur utilisation rationnelle et judicieuse, ainsi que la protection de la santé humaine et de l’environnement.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The Reconstruction and Development Corporation is established as a body corporate under section 1. The Corporation shall cooperate with local authorities in development planning and in particular shall draft and keep under review plans for the whole or part of the reconstruction area, declared by the President under section 21, guide the development and use of land, grant loans for development, construct and repair public works and facilities, etc. (sect. 2). Powers of the Corporation are set out in section 3. The Governing Body of the Corporation shall be a Board (sect. 4).

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The Act consists of 99 sections which are divided into 6 Parts: Preliminary (I); Land Holding (II); Control of Land Use (III); Land Management (IV); Land Tribunals (V); Miscellaneous (VI).Sections 3 declares all land in Uganda to be vested in its citizens and divides land tenure systems into 4 categories: customary; freehold; mailo; and leasehold. Section 4 defines these titles in detail. Mailo tenure is a form of tenure that permits the separation of ownership of land from the ownership of developments of the land made by a lawful or bona fide occupant.

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