Section 73: Rights When Officials Encamp on Your Land
73.Rights of officials to encamp
(1)Where any officer of the Government necessarily and unavoidably in order to carry out his or her duties needs to enter private land, he or she may enter, giving not less than three days' notice of the proposed entry to the owner or occupier of the land.
(2)A person who exercises the right conferred upon him or her by subsection (1) shall, if so required by the occupier of the land in respect of which the right is exercised, establish his or her encampment in such suitable place as the occupier may select.
(3)The Government shall pay promptly—
(a)a reasonable fee to the owner or occupier of the land for every day that the land is encamped upon under this section, and any such fee shall include payment for any produce or other things taken from the land with the permission of the owner or occupier;
(b)for all damage caused to the land or anything attached to or forming part of the land or any movable property on the land or anything wrongly taken away from the land by the actions of any person encamped upon the land under this section, and the owner or occupier may appeal to the relevant district land tribunal against any failure by the Government to comply with this section.
(4)A person who, being the occupier of any land, refuses to allow a person to exercise a right conferred upon him or her by subsection (1) or willfully interferes with or obstructs the exercise of any such right, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding five currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or both.
(5)This section shall not apply to the encampment of any authorised security forces.
Plain English Summary
You have the right to at least three days' notice before a government official enters your private land for their duties. If they need to set up camp,...
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