# Land assembly, land acquisition, title, and registration of land tenure

## Review of Existing Legislation / Processes

* [Sectional Properties Regulations 2021](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-c-laws-policies-regulations-governing-physical-planning/18.-sectional-properties-regulations-2021.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Provide clarity on the exemptions on what is meant by ‘mixed use development’ in terms of minimum acreage and diversity and ‘substantial transactions’.</mark>
* [Sectional Properties Act 2020](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/15.-sectional-properties-act-no.-21-of-2020.md)-   <mark style="color:green;">Extend the current statutory timeline of 2 years for title conversion.</mark>
* [Land Act No.6 of 2012](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/1.-land-act-no.-6-of-2012.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Simplify foreclosure procedures to promote mortgage lending</mark>&#x20;
* [Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2009](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/5.-sessional-paper-no.-3-of-2009-the-national-land-policy.md) on National Land Policy<mark style="color:green;">- The  Policy is outdated and due for review, especially to align it with the 2010 Constitution.</mark>
* <mark style="color:green;">Update other laws and policies that are outdated and in need of revision/updating e.g.,</mark> [<mark style="color:green;">Survey Act</mark>](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/12.-survey-act-no.-25-of-1961-cap-299.md)<mark style="color:green;">, Survey Manual, and the National Land Policy 2009;</mark>

## Develop Regulations for Existing Legislation

* [Sectional Properties Act 2020](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/15.-sectional-properties-act-no.-21-of-2020.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Provide guidelines or procedures for applying for exemptions from converting long term leases to sectional titles.</mark>
* [Land Registration Act No. 3 of 2012](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/2.-land-registration-act-no.-3-of-2012.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Provide for the required guidelines/procedures to support geo-referencing and title migration</mark>.

## Support implementation of Existing Legislation

* [Land Registration Act No. 3 of 2012](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/2.-land-registration-act-no.-3-of-2012.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Review the design and capacity of ArdhiSasa platform, to enable its functionality with speed and ease; support surveying of land parcels and digitization of land registries in all counties.</mark>
* [Land Registration Act No. 3 of 2012](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/2.-land-registration-act-no.-3-of-2012.md)- <mark style="color:green;">Expedite land title conversion processes</mark>
* <mark style="color:green;">Support development of land value indexes as pro; Kenya National Spatial Data Infrastructure Policy; and the National Land Surveying and Mapping Policy all exist but need to be finalized and operationalized.</mark>
* <mark style="color:green;">Finalisation of the draft</mark> [<mark style="color:green;">Idle Land Taxation Policy</mark>](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/3.-idle-land-taxation-policy-2018.md)<mark style="color:green;">.</mark>
* <mark style="color:green;">Consider the development of a land banking policy, a law on minimum and maximum acreages of private land and guidelines/regulations on penalties for compliance.</mark>

## Other non-legislative recommendations

1. <mark style="color:green;">The Department of Surveys should prepare and publish guidelines/procedures to inform the issuance of a unique prefix number to support geo-referencing of sectional units given that  geospatial data remains uncoordinated;</mark>
2. <mark style="color:green;">Fast track/expedite title conversions and migration as required by the</mark> [<mark style="color:blue;">Land Registration Act 2012</mark>](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/2.-land-registration-act-no.-3-of-2012.md) <mark style="color:green;">and the</mark> [<mark style="color:blue;">Land Registration (Registration Units) Order 2017</mark>](/kenya-legal-policy-and-institutional-review/annex-b-laws-policies-regulations-governing-land-assembly-acquisition-title-tenure/14.-land-registration-registration-units-order-2017.md) <mark style="color:green;">which is hampering financing since there is in place a moratorium on dealings/transactions on unmigrated land;</mark>
3. <mark style="color:green;">Deal with design and operational challenges of the online national land information system (ArdhiSasa platform) and improve transparency on what areas/titles have been uploaded onto the portal;</mark>
4. <mark style="color:green;">Prepare, publish and adopt policy instruments/frameworks on gender in land, spatial data, and land surveying and mapping; and</mark>
5. <mark style="color:green;">Fast track the rolling out of land value indexes in many areas to deal with rising land prices arising from land speculation;</mark>


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