Land (Amendment) Act, no. 21 of 2025

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR LAW REPORTING -■ LIBRARY SPECIAL ISSUE Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 174 (Acts No. 21) REPUBLIC OF KENYA KENYA GAZETTE SUPPLEMENT ACTS, 2025 NAIROBI, 21st October, 2025 CONTENT Act— PAGE The Land (Amendment) Act, 2025 ... 531 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR LAW REPORTING n OCT 2015 LIBRARY ARCHIVE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER, NAIROBI 531 THE LAND (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2025 No. 21 of 2025 Date ofAssent: 15th October, 2025 Date of Commencement: 4th November, 2025 AN ACT of Parliament to amend the Land Act, 2012 ENACTED by the Parliament of Kenya, as follows 1, This Act may be cited as the Land (Amendment) Act, 2025. 2. The Land Act, 2012 hereinafter referred to as the “principal Act” is amended in section 2 by inserting the following new definition in proper alphabetical sequence— “Registrar” has the meaning assigned to it under section 2 of the Land Registration Act, 2012. 3. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended by inserting the following new sub-sections inunediately after subsection (12) — Short title. Amendment of section 2 of No. 6 of 2012. No. 3 of 2012. Amendment of section 12 of No. 6 of 2012. (13) A public body or institution shall apply to the Registrar for registration of public land allocated by the Commission in the prescribed form. (14) The Registrar shall register public land allocated to a public body or institution by the Commission. (15) Pursuant to section 58 and paragraph 7 of the Third Schedule to the Physical and Land Use Plaiming Act, 2019, the Registrar shall register land set aside by persons or a land buying company for a public purpose consequent upon a proposed development. (16) Upon registration of land under subsections (14) and (15), the Registrar shall publish a notice in the Gazette specifying the particulars of the registration and issue a certificate of title— No. 13 of 2019. (a) in the case of an incorporated public entity, the certificate of title 532 2025Land (Amendment)No. 21 shall be issued in the name of the entity; (b) in the case of an unincorporated public entity, the Cabinet Secretary to the National Treasury as trustee; and (c) in the case of a county government, in the name of the county government.