No. 12/2017 LAND Corv:rMrssroN Cap. 20:29 (e) State land the layout of which has been approved in tenm of(i) section 127 of the Town and Country Planning Act [Chapter 213 of 1974]; or (ii) section 43 of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act [Chapter 20:12]; "piece of land" means a piece of land registered as a separate entity in the Deeds Registry; "fanner" means the owner or lessee of, or permit-holder or holder of an offer letter in relation to, a farm; "Gazetted land" means agricultural land acquired pursuant to the land refonn programme under section 72(2) of the Constitution or refened to in section 72(4) of the Constitution; "holder" in relation to an offer letter, means the holder of an offer letter who has indicated that he or she has accepted the offer of a farm described in the letter but who is not yet a party to a ninety-nine year lease; "household" consists of spouses living together as husband and wife and their dependant children or other dependants whom they are lawfully required to maintain; "indigenous person" has the same meaning as in the Indigcnisation and Economic EmpowennentAct [Chapter14:33] (No. 14of2007); "land" includes anything pennanently attached to or growing on land; "lease" means a ninety-nine year lease or lease with a purchase option or other lease of agricultural land, and "lease" shall be construed accordingly; "lease with a purchase option" means a lease of a holding issued by the State in terms of the repealed Agricultural Land Settlement Act to an indigenous person, that contains an option to purchase the holding to which it relates, and includes the tenure of a holding after the right to purchase the holding has been exercised and until title has been issued in respect thereof; "member", in relation to the Commission, means a member of the Commission; "Minister" means the Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act, and "Ministry" shall be construed accordingly; "ninety-nine year lease" means a lease of any portion of Gazetted land, and relating in patticular to that category of resettlement land allocated under the A2 Model Scheme desclibed in the Lane! Reform and Resettlement Progrmmne and Implementation Plan (Phase 2), published inAplil, 2001 (as re-issued and amended from time to time); "Natural Region" means a Natural Region specified in section 3 of the Rural Land (Fam1 Sizes) Regulations, 1999, published in Statutory Instrument 419 of 1999, or any other law that may be substituted for those regulations; "offer letter" means a letter issued by the tv1inister that offers to allocate an A2 farm to the person to whom the letter is addressed; "partially alienated State land right" means(a) a ninety-nine year lease or other lease of agricultural land; or (b) a lease with a purchase option; or (c) a permit; or (d) an offer letter; 208