Section 1: In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-

"authorised officer" means an officer of a Chiefdom Council Committee, the National Land Commission, an officer of the Environment Protection Agency or the National Protected Area Authority; "bye-laws" mean rules adopted by communities to govern their land and natural resources; "Chiefdom Council Committee" means the Paramount Chief, Chiefdom Speaker, Section Chiefs,Members of Parliament, Ward Councillors and persons of note drawn from the chiefdom in accordance with customary law and tradition; 'Chiefdom Land Committee'' means the chiefdom land committee established under section 49 of the National Land Commission Act 2021; "community" means any settlement of people in a village, chiefdom, town or city; "community land" means land that is owned or managed by a community or is made available for public use by a Chiefdom Council Committee or land owners subject to customary law or the terms of the grants subject to customary law and includes cemetaries, playgrounds, market areas and sacred sites; "Community member'' means a male or female who is ordinarily resident in a village, town or chiefdom - including persons who were born in that community, who have married into that community, and who have moved to the community for other reasons; Second Schedule : Terms of a lease agreement Any lease agreement signed between a community and an investor shall include the following information 1. Parties to the contract. If the community is leasing shared lands, the name of the entire community shall be the party to the contract, not specific leaders' names; if a family or group of families is leasing the land, the contract should have the name of the family and the name of the person/s signing on behalf of the family as parties to the lease.