Section 13: How to Get Freehold Title in Uganda
13.Functions of board on application for freehold tenure
(1)The board shall, upon receipt of the report and recommendations of the committee referred to in section 12(2)(b), consider the application in light of that report and those recommendations and, subject to section 12(1), may—
(a)confirm the recommendations of the committee and where those recommendations are to approve the application, with or without conditions and restrictions, confirm that approval and refer the approval to the Registrar of Titles to issue the applicant with a certificate of title or, as the case may be, a limited certificate under the Registration of Titles Act and where the recommendations are to refuse the application, confirm that refusal;
(b)where the recommendation of the committee is to approve the application, subject to conditions, restrictions and limitations, vary the recommendation of the committee and approve the application, with or without conditions, restrictions and limitations in accordance with any such variations as it may make;
(c)return the report to the committee with directions as to what action, including any further investigations or hearings, the committee is to undertake on the application; or
(d)reject the report of the committee and where the recommendation of the committee is to approve the application, refuse to approve the application and where the recommendation of the committee is to refuse the application, approve the application; and where the application is rejected, the board shall give reasons as to why the application was rejected.
(2)Where the committee reports, under section 12(2)(b) that a person is entitled to the benefit of a third party right, the board shall, if it accepts the report of the committee on the matter, and after taking into account the advice of the district land office, determine the nature of the third party right.
(3)Before approving the report and recommendations under subsection (1)(a) or (b), the board shall cause the land in respect of which the application is made to be surveyed.
(4)The board may, where it has determined that any person is entitled to the benefit of a third party right in land which is subject to an application for conversion to freehold tenure, determine that any freehold title of such land shall be subject to such restrictions, conditions and limitations as it considers desirable in the interests of efficiency and equity in land management or as will enable full effect to be given to those third party rights.
(5)In respect of an application to which section 10 applies, the board shall charge a fee for the freehold title which shall be prescribed and any such charge at the fair market valuation shall be set by the board at the level determined by the chief government valuer, and any fee may be paid in one lump sum or in instalments as the board may determine.
(6)Where the board approves an application, it shall—
(a)send a copy of its decision to the Registrar of Titles to enable the Registrar of Titles to issue a certificate;
(b)request the Registrar of Titles to issue a certificate of freehold title to the applicant in terms of its decision, including endorsing on the title as an incumbrance any restriction, condition or limitation as is referred to in subsection (4).
(7)A person aggrieved by a decision or determination of the board under this section may appeal to a district land tribunal against that decision; and the district land tribunal may confirm, vary, reverse or modify the decision or determination of the board and make such other order in respect of that decision or determination as it is empowered to make by this Act.
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If you apply to convert your land to freehold tenure, the Land Board will review the committee's report and recommendations. The Board can approve you...
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