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Section 6, The Customary Land Rights Act, 2022
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Payment of rent. Detailed description of what rental payments will be made,the timetable of when they will be paid, and how the payments will be delivered.
The contract shall include periodic adjustments for inflation
"community livelihood" means socio-economic
activities undertaken by community members to
provide for their everyday life, such as farming,
fishing or hunting etc;
"Customary land" means land owned, governed by or
administered under customary law in the provinces;
"Customary land pledge" means a transaction by
which family land or interest in family land which is
subject to customary law and the land transferred
by one person to another as security for a debt due
or owed;
"Customary land rights" mean the full range of primary
rights (the right to exclude, transfer, transact,
bequeath, manage and make decisions about the
land) and secondary rights (rights of way, access to
use natural resources, right to drive cattle, right to
obtain water from a river) to land under customary
law;
"Customary law" means any rule other than a rule of
general law having the force of law in any chiefdom
village or town in the provinces and by which rights
and duties are acquired or imposed in accordance
with natural justice and equity and in accordance
with the 1991 Constitution or any other law applying
to the provinces;
"District Land Commission" means the District Land
Commission established under section 35 of the
National Lands Commission Act 2022;
"District Registry" means the District Registry
established under section 67 of the National Lands
Commission Act 2022;
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