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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.
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]
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.
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 Land Act prohibits all decisions related to property that result in the refusal of land rights to women. [51] Furthermore, the 1995 Constitution of Uganda also prohibits gender-based discrimination, granting men and women equal rights. [52] Although the Land Act and various land-rights systems grant women land ownership, there is evidence ...
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.
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 Free Zones Authority (UFZA) is a government free zones agency established by the Parliament of Uganda.Operating under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, UFZA is responsible for the establishment, development, management, marketing, maintenance, supervision and control of free zones in Uganda and to provide for other related matters.