Constituency Corner

Landlord and Tenant (Business Premises) Act

The Laws of Zambia

Copyright Ministry of Legal Affairs, Government of the Republic of Zambia

An Act to provide security of tenure for tenants occupying property for business,

professional and certain other purposes; to enable such tenants to obtain new

tenancies in certain cases; and to provide for matters connected therewith and

incidental thereto.

Rating Act

An Act to provide for the declaration of rateable areas; to make provision for the

assessment of rateable property; to provide for the levying of rates; and to

provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing

Bills of Sale (Registration) Act

An Act to remove certain doubts relating to the registration of Bills of Sale and for

matters connected therewith.

Fencing Act

An Act to regulate the erection and maintenance of dividing fences; and to provide

for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.

Lands Acquisition Act

An Act to make provision for the compulsory acquisition of land and other

property; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the

foregoing.

Land Survey Act

An Act to make further and more comprehensive provisions for the registration and

licensing of land surveyors; to provide for the manner in which land surveys

shall be carried out and diagrams and plans connected therewith shall be

prepared; to provide for the protection of survey beacons and other survey

marks; to provide for the establishment and powers of a Survey Control Board

which will be responsible for the registration and licensing of land surveyors

and for the exercise of disciplinary control over such surveyors; and to

Agricultural Lands Act

An Act to provide for the establishment of the Agricultural Lands Board; to

prescribe the composition and membership thereof; to prescribe its powers

and functions; to provide for tenant farming schemes; and to provide for

matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

Land (Perpetual Succession) Act

An Act to provide for perpetual succession to land; and to provide for matters

incidental thereto or connected therewith.

Lands and Deeds Registry Act

An Act to provide for the registration of documents; to provide for the issue of

Provisional Certificates of Title and Certificates of Title; to provide for the

transfer and transmission of registered land; and to provi

de for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

Lands Act

An Act to provide for the continuation of Leaseholds and leasehold tenure; to

provide for the continued vesting of land in the Presindent and alienation of

land by the President; to provide for the statutory recognition and

continuation of customary tenure; to provide for the conversion of customary

tenure into leasehold tenure; to establish a Land Development Fund and a

Lands Tribunal; to repeal the Land (Conversion of Titles) Act; to repeal the

Zambia (State Lands and Reserves) Orders, 1928 to 1964, the Zambia (Trust

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