What Land Board Basically Does In Kenya
A land board is basically a group of directors or executives that oversee the management of a land-based company, or it can be defined as a non-working board that meets up when their meetings have been scheduled, sits, and considers applications referred to it by the minister or department for grant of state lease.
Basically, these are a team of people that work hand in hand with the ministry’s department of land so that they can oversee an easy transition of property from one party to another, so we can say, in other words, they hold the power to approve or disapprove the application presented to them.
The role of the land board team actually varies as it depends on the specific context and jurisdiction, but generally it involves some aspects of land administration, namely the process of determining, recording, and disseminating information about the ownership, value, and use of land, as explained above.
They also establish a three-tier land control board system with unimpeachable statutory powers to grant or deny consent to the controlled transactions of agricultural lands.
They also explain the rights and obligations associated with holding title to land by explaining in detail what the title deeds are all about as well as outlining the consequences that may come with them.
WHAT THE LAW STATES ABOUT LAND BOARD ACT
The Kenyan Law Gazette states that The Minister shall, by notice, establish a land control board for every land control area or, where it is divided into divisions, for each division.
Below are some of the laws that the Kenyan Law Gazette directs are to be followed:
Where a land control board refuses to grant consent in respect of a controlled transaction, the applicant may, within thirty days of the copy of the board’s decision being delivered or posted under Section 16(2) of this Act, appeal to the provincial land control appeals board for the province in which the land is located.
question is situated.
A provincial land control appeals board shall, in its absolute discretion, hear
and determine all appeals made to it under subsection (1), and, subject to the right of appeal conferred by section 13, the decision of a provincial land control appeals board shall be final and conclusive and shall not be questioned in any court.
The Commissioner of Lands shall be the secretary of the Central Land Control Appeal Board and shall attend and speak at meetings but may not vote.
Any person whose appeal has been dismissed by a provincial land control
appeals board may, within thirty days of the copy of the board’s decision being delivered or posted under Section 16(2) of this Act, appeal to the central land control appeals board, after which the central land control appeals board shall, in its absolute discretion, hear and determine all appeals made to it under subsection (1) of this section, and the decision of the central land control appeals board shall be final and conclusive and shall not be questioned in any court.
An appointed member of a board shall hold office for such a period as may be
prescribed or, where no period is prescribed, for such period as may be specified in his appointment, Provided that a member’s appointment may be terminated at any time by the Minister, and a member may resign at any time by notice in writing to the Minister.
If the chairman of a board is absent from a meeting of the board, the
Members present at the meeting shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting.
Every decision of a board shall be given in writing in the prescribed manner.
and shall be signed by or on behalf of the chairman or other person presiding, and where consent is refused or an appeal is dismissed, the reasons for the refusal or dismissal shall be stated in the decision.
