The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

(7) Persons who traditionally and in accordance with customary law occupied and used landin any National Park or in the land under the jurisdiction of the Ngorongoro Conservation AreaAuthority but who, since the enactment of the National Parks Act *(28) and the NgorongoroConservation Act *(29) may occupy that land only with the permission of or under a licencefrom the Director of the National Parks or the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority shall bedeemed to occupy that land under a customary right of occupancy.(8) Any person or group of persons occupying land under the provisions of section 5 of thePublic Land (Preserved Areas) Act *(30), shall be deemed to be occupying and to have alwaysoccupied that land under a customary right of occupancy.(9) Nothing in subsections (5), (6) and (7) shall affect the power of authorities exercisingfunctions under the statutes referred to in those provisions from continuing to regulate the useof land by persons, who by virtue of this section, are occupying land under a customary right ofoccupancy.15. Confirmation of validity of interests in land created under and by Operation Vijiji(1) An allocation of land made to a person or a group of persons residing in or required tomove to and reside in a village at any time between first day of January, 1970 and thethirty-first day of December,1977, whether made under and in pursuance of a law or contraryto or in disregard of any law, is hereby confirmed to be and to have always been a validallocation capable of and in law giving rise to rights and obligations in the party to whom theallocation was made and extinguishing any rights and obligations vested in any person underany law which may have existed in that land prior to that allocation.(2) A granted right of occupancy made to a person or group of persons residing in orrequired to move to and reside in a village at any time between first day of January, 1970 andthe thirty-first day of December, 1977 whether granted in accordance with the procedures ofthe Land Act *(31) or not, and whether registered under and in accordance with the provisionsof the Land Registration Act *(32), or not is hereby confirmed to be and to have always beenfrom the time of the grant a valid granted right and obligations in the grantee as from the dateof the grant and extinguishing any rights and obligations vested in any person under any lawwhich may have existed in that land prior to that grant.(3) A written offer of a granted right of occupancy or a letter of offer of a granted right ofoccupancy issued by an officer authorised to do so, made to a person or group of personsresiding in or required to move to and reside in a village between the first day of January, 1970and the thirty-first day of December, 1977, whether made in accordance with the provisions ofthe Land Act *(33) or not, and whether registered under and in accordance with the provisionsof the Registration of Documents Act *(34), or not is hereby confirmed to be and to havealways been a valid offer or as the case may be, a valid letter of offer which may, at any timebefore first day of January 2000, be acted upon so as to create a right of occupancy whichshall be a customary right of occupancy and that customary right of occupancy shall extinguish