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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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