No. 12/2017 LAND CO!v!MISSION Cap. 20:29 (4) An assessor who is not in the full-time employment of the State shall be paid such remuneration and allowances as the Minister responsible for justice, after consultation with the Minister responsible for finance, may fix. (5) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that the existing law on the devolution of property on marriage, dissolution of marriage, death, insolvency and mental and other incapacity shall apply to pru1ially alienated State land except to the extent that different provision for such eventualities is expressly made by or under this Act or in a lease or pennit issued under this Act or the repealed Agricultural Land Settlement Act. 37 Regulations relating to appellate and dispute settlement functions of Commission and amendment of Fifth Schedule (1) The Conmussion, with the approval of the Minister, may make regulations providing for all matters which in its opinion are necessary or convenient for carrying out or giving effect to this Part. (2) Regulations made in tenus of subsection (1) may provide for(a) (b) (c) regulating appeals to the Comnussion and the determination of disputes by it and the fees payable in connection therewith; the manner in which assessors shall perform their functions; the determination of appeals or disputes whichappearto it to be frivolous or vexatious. (3) Subject to subsection (1), the Minister, after consultation with the Comnussion, may by notice in a statutory instrument amend or replace the Fifth Schedule. (4) When the Minister wishes to amend or replace the Fifth Schedule the Minister shall(a) refer the draft statutory instrument amending or replacing the Fifth Schedule to Cabinet for its approval; and (b) if Cabinet approves the draft statutory instmment amending or replacing the Fifth Schedule (with or without amendments), lay the draft statutory instrument before the House of Assembly. (5) If the House of Assembly makes no resolution against the publication of the statutory instrument within the next seven sitting days after it is laid before it under subsection (4), the Minister shall cause it to be published in the Gazette. PART VIII REGISTER OF PARTIALLY ALIENATED STATE LAND R.J:Gms 38 Interpretation in Part VIII (1) In this Part- "Register" means the Register of Partially Alienated State Land Rights, being the central register of such rights referred to in section 40(1); "Registrar" means the Secretary as provided in section39(1). (2) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that offer letters are subject to registration in tenns of this Part prior to the registration of the lease to which they relate. 222

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