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Tenant rights were then boosted by the 1998 Land Act and its 2010 amendment. [2] Mailo ownership of registered land means holding title to it in perpetuity and thus it is similar to freehold. Mailo exists in western and central Uganda, with an estimated 9 per cent of the land mass being owned in this way. [1] The mailo system is unique to Uganda.
Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land.In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property.
It is the "regulator of public procurement and disposal of public assets in Uganda". [ 3 ] As of March 2013 [update] , the PPDA faced challenges in the following areas: (1) At that time, the 70 employees were not enough to cater to the many services required of staff.
The Uganda Land Commission (ULC) is a semi-autonomous land verification, monitoring, and preservation organisation, owned by the Ugandan government, that is mandated to document, verify, preserve, and maintain land owned and/or administered by the government.
The 1995 Constitution of Uganda mandated four forms of land ownership, namely mailo, customary, freehold and leasehold. [2] Tenant rights were then boosted by the 1998 Land Act and its 2010 amendment. [3] The government sought to regulate squatting amongst other things with the 2010 Land Amendment Act and the 2018 Landlord and Tenant Bill. [1]
Most of the public land managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is in the Western states. Public lands account for 25 to 75 percent of the total land area in these states. [2] The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [3]
The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD), is a cabinet-level government ministry of Uganda. It is responsible for "policy direction, national standards and coordination of all matters concerning lands, housing and urban development". [1] The ministry is headed by a cabinet minister, currently Judith Nabakooba. [2]
He defended the 1975 Land Reform Decree 1975, which overhauled the country's land tenure system by overturning the Public Lands Act of 1969 and eliminating all private property in Uganda and making all land in Uganda to be public land owned by the government of Uganda, with land leased to private enterprises from the government of Uganda. [7]