Land Reform (Special Provisions) Act 1981 · As enacted · Part I · Amendments to the Lanp Reform Law, No 1 of 1972
7. “ee Amendment of section 22 of the principal enactment
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Section 22 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—
in subsection (1) of that section—
by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (b)
of that subsection, of the following new para-graph :—
“ (bb) alienation, by way of sale with the approval of the
Minister, for non-agricultural purposes ;”; and
by the substitution, for paragraph (f) of that sub-section, of the following paragraph :—
‘ (f) alienation, by way of sale to any perscn who—
owned agricultural land on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Law, or
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was deemed, by reason of the operation of section 7 or section 8, to own agri-cultural land on the date of commence-ment of this Law, .:;
and who was dispossessed of such land by reason of the fact that, such person being a person under eighteen years of age at: the time of the imposition of the ceiling or agri-cultural land, the land owned by him was
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included in the extent of land deemed to be owned by-the head of the family, of which such person was a member.
An alienation may be made under this paragraph notwithstanding the fact that the allenee continues to be under eighteen years of age on the date of alienation and where an alienation of agricultural land is made under this paragraph to a person under eighteen years of age, such. person shall, for the purposes of ownership of such land, be deemed to be a “person” within the mean-ing of this Law.
Where land owned by a person, who was under eighteen years of age at the time of the imposition of the ceiling on agricultural land, has not, on the date of enactment of this paragraph, been alienated to any person under section 22, and no compensation has been paid under séction 28 in respect of such
Yand, the Minister may, in lieu of alienating such land under the preceding provisions of this paragraph, by Order published in the
Gazette, vest such land in such person. Such
Order shall have the effect of giving such person absolute title to such land as from the date of such Order ; and
by the addition, at the end of that section, of the followmg new subsection :—
“ (4) It sWall be lawful for the Commission to alienate by way of lease under paragraph (b) or paragraph (bb)
of subsection (1), agricultural land to any person im excess of fifty acres for such purposes as may be approved by the
Minister. ”. +
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