The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

(1) A district council may provide advice and guidance to any village council situate within itsarea of jurisdiction concerning the administration by that village council of village land, either inresponse to a request for that advice and guidance from a village council or of its own motionand any village council to which that advice and guidance is given shall have regard to thatadvice and guidance.(2) No advice and guidance given by a district council shall contradict or conflict with anydirective or circular issued by the Commissioner under subsection (3) of Section 11 of theLand Act *(21).(3) Where a conflict of interest arises in respect of administration of village land, anymember of a village council who or a committee of the council dealing with land which iscovered by that description shall declare his conflict of interest and shall take no further part innor attend any meeting of the village council or its committee where the land the subject of theconflict of interest is on the agenda, and any person who fails to declare that conflict of interestor who contravenes this provision shall render himself liable to disciplinary proceedingsapplicable to a member of the village council.10. Conflict of interest(1) Where any matter concerning land in which any member of the village council exercisingfunctions under this Act or any member of his immediate family has an interest is allocated to,referred to or otherwise comes to that member of the village council for his advice, assistanceor decision that member shall not exercise any function under this Act in respect of that land.(2) For the purposes of this section "immediate family" means, any other person related tothat person as a father or mother, son or daughter, wife or husband and brother or sisterwhether born in or out of wedlock, whether born in or outside Tanzania, and where any personreferred to above has more than one spouse, shall include all those spouses.11. Joint village land use agreements between villages(1) In the exercise of the powers of management, a village council shall have power to enterinto an agreement, to be known as a joint village land use agreement with any other villagecouncil concerning the use by any one or more groups of persons, of land traditionally so usedby those groups, being the land which is partly within the jurisdiction of one village and partlywithin the jurisdiction of another village with which an agreement is to be entered into and thatagreement may be amended, modified or varied from time to time.(2) Where an agreement which is referred to in subsection (1) is to be entered into, thevillage councils proposing to enter into that agreement shall–(a)first, convene one or more meetings of the groups of persons using the land which isto be the subject of the agreement–