Section 60: Functions of District Land Board in Uganda
60.Functions of board
(1)The functions of a board shall be to—
(a)hold and allocate land in the district which is not owned by any person or authority;
(b)facilitate the registration and transfer of interests in land;
(c)take over the role and exercise the powers of the lessor in the case of a lease granted by a former controlling authority;
(d)cause surveys, plans, maps, drawings and estimates to be made by or through its officers or agents;
(e)compile and maintain a list of rates of compensation payable in respect of crops, buildings of a non-permanent nature and any other thing that may be prescribed;
(f)review every year the list of rates of compensation referred to in paragraph (e) of this subsection; and
(g)deal with any matter which is incidental or connected to the other functions referred to in this subsection.
(2)Where a board enters into or undertakes or concludes any such transaction or allocates land in contravention of subsection (1)(a), the transaction shall be void.
(3)A board within a district may, in the performance of its functions under Article 241(1)(a) of the Constitution, do so under the name of the institution of a traditional leader or cultural leader existing under Article 246 of the Constitution in relation to that district.
(4)For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in subsection (3) shall be construed as conferring on the traditional leader or cultural leader referred to in that subsection the power of direction or control over a board.
(5)In carrying out its functions under subsection (1)(a), a board shall have regard to Article 237(1) of the Constitution.
(6)A board shall, in compiling a list of rates of compensation referred to in subsection (1)(e) and (f), consult the technical officers in the district.
(7)Each district shall have a district land office, which shall provide technical services through its own staff, or arrange for external consultants to a board.
(8)A board shall hold in trust for the citizens the reversion on any lease to which subsection (1)(c) relates and may exercise in relation to the lease and the reversion the powers of a controlling authority under the Public Lands Act, 1969, as if that Act had not been repealed; but subject to the foregoing, that Act shall, in respect of any such lease or reversion, have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to give effect to this Act and shall be subject to the provisions of the Constitution.
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You can apply to the district land board for land that is not owned by anyone in the district. The board helps you register your interests in land and...
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