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(a) the publication in the Gazette of a notice of the application and particulars
of where and the time within which any related documentation may be
collected by the owner of the land to be acquired and the holder of any
other registered real right in that land shall be deemed to constitute
sufficient service of the notice of the application upon the owner and any
other party concerned in the application;
(b) it shall not be necessary for the purposes of proviso (a) to identify by name
the holder of any registered real right in the land who is not the owner of
the land.”;
(b) by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection⎯
“(3a) The Administrative Court shall have jurisdiction in the first instance to hear
and determine any application (whether or not made at the same time as the application
for an order referred to in subsection (1)) to review the proceedings and decisions of the
acquiring authority on any of the grounds specified in section 27 of the High Court Act
[Chapter 7:06], and may exercise in relation to such application the same powers that
the High Court has on review of civil proceedings or decisions.”.
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Amendment of section 8 of Cap. 20:10
Section 8 (“Vesting of land, taking of materials and exercise of rights over land”) of the
principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by the repeal of proviso (iii) and the substitution of—
“(iii) in the case of agricultural land required for resettlement purposes, the acquiring
authority shall acquire the land concerned by notice in the Gazette specifying—
(a) the land that is being acquired; and
(b) the name of the registered owner of such land.”.
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Amendments of penalties in and minor amendments to Cap. 20:10
The provisions of the principal Act specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended
to the extent specified opposite thereto in the second column of the Schedule.
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Repeal of S.I. 346 of 2001
The Land Acquisition (Offers of Land in Substitution for Land to be Acquired for
Resettlement Purposes and Related Matters) Regulations, 2001, published in Statutory Instrument
346 of 2001, are repealed.
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Repeal of Cap. 20:08
(1) The Hippo Valley Agreement Act [Cap. 20:08] (hereafter in this section referred to as
“the repealed Act”) is repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding any condition contained in any agreement of lease, or sale or other
disposition between the Hippo Valley Estates Limited or its successors in title and any person in
respect of land transferred to it or under its control in terms of the agreement set out in the
Schedule to the repealed Act, or contained in any title deed in respect of such land, the State may,
H.B. 15A, 2003 – showing Committee Stage amendments.]