Cap. 20:29
LAND COMMISSION
No.12/2017
and includes any right incidental to or connected with any of the foregoing
rights (such as a statutory servitude created in terms of Part IX), and the
expression "holder of partially alienated State land" shall be construed
accordingly;
"permit" means a permit to hold any portion of Gazetted land and relating
in particular to that category of resettlement land allocated under the
Al Model Scheme described in the Land Reform and Resettlement
Progmmme and Implementation Plan (Phase 2), published in April, 2001
(as re-issued and amended from time to time);
"province" means an area of Zimbabwe declared as such in terms of the
Provincial Councils and Administration Act [Chapter 29:11];
"principal officer", in relation to(a) a public authority which is a Govenrment Ministry or department or
a statutory body, means the head of the Ministry or department in
question, or the chairperson of the governing body or chief executive
officer of the statutory body in question, by whatever title he or she
may be called;
(b) a company, other corporate body or unregistered association, means
the chairperson or any member of the board or other governing body
of the company, corpomte body or unregistered association;
"public authority", in relation to an authority or official against whom or which
any complaint has been made in terms of section 10, means any person,
body, organ, agency or institution belonging to or controlled or employed
by the State, a local authority or statutory body;
"quarter" means a period of three months ending on the 31st March, 30th June,
30th September and 31st December in each year;
"Register" and "Registmr" bear the meanings given in section 38(1);
"repealed Agricultural Land Settlement Act" means the Agricultural Land
Settlement Act [Chapter 20:01] repealed by section64;
"rental" means a rental payable in terms of section 56;
"statutory servitude" means a servitude created in terms of Part IX;
"this Act" includes, where applicable, the provisions of any lease or permit
issued or deemed to have been issued under this Act.
PART II
ZIMBABWE LAND CoMMISSION AND STAFF
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Corporate status of Commission, etc.
(1) The Zimbabwe Land Commission shall be a body corporate capable of
suing and being sued in its corporate name and, subject to this Act, of performing all
acts that bodies corpomte may by law perform.
(2) The First Schedule applies to the tenure of office and conditions of service
of the Commissioners as well as to the procedure to be followed by the Commission
at its meetings.
(3) The Second Schedule sets out the ancillary powers of the Commission.
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Exercise of functions of Commission
(1) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that, conformably to section297(3)
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