No. 12/2017 41 LAND CoMMISSION Cap. 20:29 (a) grant it unconditionally; (b) refuse to grant it, or grant it partially or conditiomtlly on the grounds that the disclosure or full or unconditional disclosure of the requested information is prejudicial or potentially prejudicial to the defence, public safety or public order of Zimbabwe or to the general public or national interest. Registration of partially alienated State land rights (1) Immediately upon receiving any application for the issue or grant of a partially alienated State land right, the Registrar shall without delay transmit the patiiculars thereof to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, which shall at its next meeting (whether ordinary or extraordinaty) without undue delay deten11ine whether or not to recommend to the Minister the final registration of the partially alienated State land tight in question: Provided that in order to enable the Conm1ission to properly consider the application the Commission may, through the Executive Secretaty, request for further particulars from the Registrar in connection with the application for the partially alienated State land right in question, and the Registrar shall promptly comply with such request so that the question of whether or not to recommend that the Minister should exercise his or her powers in terms of section 17 to grant the application may be made by the Commission no later than its next meeting after the meeting when the additional particulars were requested. (2) Immediately on concluding its consideration of an application in terms of subsection ( 1) the Commission shall transmit in writing to the .tviinister through the Registrar its recommendation together with any observations it may wish to make thereon, and the Minister, after taking into account any observation.'> of the Conmlission, do any one the following as may be appropriate or seem fit to him or her(a) uphold the recommendation of the Commission not to issue or grant the partially aliemtted State land right; or (b) reject the recommendation of the Commission not to issue or grant the pattially alienated State land right; or (c) uphold the recommendation of the Commission to issue or grant the partially alienated State land right; or (d) reject the recommendation of the Commission to issue or grant the partially alienated State land right. (3) If the Minister makes a decision in accordance with(a) subsection (2)(a) or (2)(d), he or she shall communicate his or her decision to the Commission in wtiting through the Registrar, giving his or her reasons for the decision where he or she makes a decision in accordance with subsection (2)(d); or (b) subsection (2)(b) or (2)(c), he or she shall communicate his or her decision to the Commission through the Registrar (giving his or her reasons for the decision where he or she makes a decision in accordance with subsection (2)(b)), and thereupon the Registrar shall without delay register the partially alienated State land right to which the particulars relate by entering it in the Register. (4) A pattially alienated State land right shall be or be deemed to be finally registered on the date such patiially alienated State land right is entered in the Register. 224

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