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Land Laws (Amendment) Bill
Who really owns ancestral land
Step 01
ParliamentRegistration of community land shifts from county governments to a new national board.
The Bill repeals sections 8–14 of the Community Land Act 2016 and transfers registration powers to a National Community Land Board appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. Counties retain only an advisory role.
- Registration authority
- County → National
- County role
- Advisory only
- Board appointment
- Cabinet Secretary
- Assent transfers registration powers
- Day 0
- Cabinet Secretary names Board members
- Day 14
- Board takes over county land registries
- Month 1
Step 02
National Land BoardReviews and re-issues titles. Opens a 90-day window to resolve overlapping claims.
Existing community titles are paused pending re-verification. Communities have 90 days from gazettement to submit objections; missed windows convert disputed parcels into 'unclaimed' status, which the Board may lease.
- Objection window
- 90 days
- Effect of missed deadline
- Marked unclaimed
- Communities affected
- ~1,400
- Objection window opens (gazettement)
- Month 1
- Public verification hearings in counties
- Month 2
- Window closes — unclaimed parcels listed
- Month 3
Step 03
County Offices & InvestorsLeasing ancestral land now needs a 60% community vote (up from 50%). Existing leases are re-examined.
Investors must table lease proposals before a registered community assembly with a verified roll. Existing leases signed under the old 50% threshold are subject to a one-off compliance review and may be voided.
- Lease consent threshold
- 50% → 60%
- Existing leases reviewed
- All
- Review outcome window
- 6 months
- 60% consent threshold takes effect
- Month 3
- Mid-point review of legacy leases
- Month 6
- Final compliance decisions issued
- Month 9
Step 04
Your HomePastoralist and rural families get stronger protection — but disputes that miss the 90-day window can be locked out.
Net effect: stronger consent protections for organised communities, weaker protection for households that cannot mobilise within 90 days. Diaspora and absentee community members are especially exposed.
- Households better protected
- Organised communities
- Households more exposed
- Absentee / diaspora
- Appeal route
- Environment & Land Court
- New title regime fully in force
- Year 1
- First appeals reach Environment & Land Court
- Year 2
- Statutory review of the framework
- Year 3
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