Land Control (Amendment) Act (No. 17 of 1986)

A.49 LAND CONTROL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1986 No. 17 of 1986 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title 2. Amendment of section 5 of (Cap. 32:11) 3. Amendment of section 8 of the principal Act An Act to amend the Land Control Act Date of Assent: 17,.12.86 Date of Commencement: 24.12.86 ENACTED by the Parliament of Botswana. I. This Act may be cited as the Land Control (Amendment) Shon title Act, 1986. 2. Section 5 of the Land Control Act, (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act") is hereby amended as follows (a) by the substitution for the words "thirty days" appearing in subsection (1) thereof of the words "ninety days", and (b) by the addition after paragraph (d) of subsection (1) thereof of the following new paragraph "(e) a reference to the right of any citizen of Botswana interested in entering into a similar transaction in respect of the property in question to receive priority notwithstanding the control1ed transaction set out in the notice." 3. Subsection (1) of section 8 of the principal Act is hereby sustituted by the following new subsection "8 (1) The registrar shall not register any instrument or document effecting a controlled transaction unless he is satisfied that (a) all the relevant provisions of the Act have been complied with; (b) documentary evidence has been produced that establishes the price at which the transaction was conduded." Amendment of section 5 of Cap. 32: 11 Amendment of section 8 of the principal Act PASSED by the National Assembly this 11th day of Decern ber, 1986. C.G. MOKOBI, Clerk of the National Assembly.