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    "id": 630394,
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    "speaker_name": "U – 9.3.2016 [Hon. A.B. Duale]",
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    "content": "easier. It is a summary for Members to understand what these amalgamated land laws are dealing with. Clauses 2 to 41 contain proposals to amend the Land Registration Act and to clarify the roles between the NLC and the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development in order to eliminate the overlap of the mandate that caused conflict between the two organisations. Clause 3 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 6 of the Land Registration Act to confer powers to constitute land registration units to the Cabinet Secretary in order to enhance harmony in the Constitution. Clause 5 introduces a new section that provides for the development and publication of a comprehensive programme throughout the country for registration of titles. It states that we must have a comprehensive plan, as a country, on the issuance of title deeds. Clauses 6 and 7 amend the Land Registration Act. Some of us have tracts and tracts of land and because of the climatic conditions in our areas we may be comfortable with livestock rearing. We may be doing very well and want to maintain those lands and turn them into conservancies. However, this Bill gives clarity between the roles of the community, the NLC and the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development. Clauses 8 to 10 are very important because they propose to amend Sections 12 and 14 of the Land Registration Act and insert a new section that creates the position of Deputy Chief Land Registrar, County Land Registrar and Land Registrar. It then states their qualifications and respective mandates. This will ensure that we have land registrars at the county and the national level. We will know their qualifications, their mandates, who signs the title and who is mandated to register. Clauses 11 and 12 of the Bill propose to amend Sections 16 and 17 of the Land Registration Act. I need to make it very clear that for one to understand this Bill very comprehensively, you also need to have the NLC Act, the Land Registration Act and the Land Act, 2012. This Bill is dealing with the principal Acts. It is amending a specific section of a particular act. If it is amending the National Land Registration Act, you can then check and see what the principal Act says vis-à-vis this Bill. Colleagues, when I say the Bill proposes to amend Sections 16 and 17 of the Act, I mean the Land Registration Act, where it provides ratification, preparation, submission and custody of cadastral maps. Many people create their cadastral maps and have their own plans. We must specifically state in law how we ratify, prepare, submit and the custody of cadastral maps. Clause 13 proposes to amend Section 18 of the Act. This deals with the procedure for the determination of boundary disputes and other disputes involving a piece of land. I can say without fear of contradiction that all the 47 counties in our country and even all the constituencies have boundary disputes. It is a very emotive issue. We formed the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and it only deals with elections. We need to ask where the section dealing with boundaries is. Mr. Isaack Hassan should tell us that out of the nine commissioners, three or four commissioners, with a separate secretariat, deal with boundary issues."
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