No. 12/2017
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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.
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