No. 12/2017 LAND CONIMISSION Cap. 20:29 (ii) consider every objection lodged in accordance with the notice given in terms of subsection (4); (b) every servitude or other encumbrance registered over the land concerned shall be extinguished. (4) A notice referred to in subsection (3)(a) shall(a) be published in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in the district where the land concemed is situated, once a week for three consecutive weeks; and (b) state that the approptiate Minister proposes to direct the Registrar of Deeds to cancel the title deeds of the land concemed; and (c) state the name, if any, of the land concerned, the district in which the land is situated, the name of the registered owner of the land and the number, if any, of the title deeds of the land; and (d) call urxm any person who has any objection to the proposed cancellation to lodge his or her objection in writing with the appropriate Minister within thitty days of the date of the last publication of the notice in terms of paragraph (a). (5) Where the title deeds of any land have been cancelled in terms of subsection (2) the land shall vest in the President. (6) On one of the thitty days on which Parliament next sits after the beginning of each session of Parliament the approptiate Minister shall lay before Parliament a report on any business transacted under this section during the previous calendar year, together with a schedule of the land acquired. 17 Lease or other alienation of State Land (1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Commission and with the approval of the President, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of State land for such purposes and subject to such conditions as he or she may determine. (2) Land may be leased or alienated to a single individual, a single corporate body, a single household or to two or more persons jointly. 18 No share-cropping without agreement approved by Minister (1) No owner or occupier of land to which this Act applies shall permit the occupation on a share-cropping basis by another person of any portion of such land unless an agreement in writing has been entered into between such owner or occupier and such other person in respect of the occupation of such land on a share-cropping basis and such agreement has been approved by the Minister. (2) The Minister shall within seven days of the receipt of an agreement mentioned in subsection (1) acknowledge the receipt thereof and if no decision has been made within six weeks of the date of acknowledgement thereof the agreement, the owner or occupier concemed shall be entitled to make an application in terms of theAdministrativeJusticeAct [Chapter 10:28] (No. 12of2004) (oranyotherlawthat may be substituted for that Act) to compel the Minister to consent to or withhold his or her consent to the transaction, or othenvise give written reasons for the delay. 19 Penalty for contravention of section 18 (1) Any owner or occupier of land who contravenes section 18(1) shall be guilty of an ofTence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 216