The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

jurisdiction of any village established as a result of Operation Vijiji;(b)any right to occupy and use land in accordance with any custom or rule of customarylaw which existed prior to first day of January, 1970, where that right was beingexercised.16. Confirmation of validity of allocations of land made by village councils since 1January 1978For the avoidance of doubt and in order to facilitate security of tenure and contribute to thedevelopment of village land, the provisions of section 15, other than subsections (2) and (3),shall apply to any and every allocation of village land made by village council or by any otherauthority on and after the first day of January, 1978 until the date of the commencement of thisAct as if for the dates referred to in subsection (1) of that section, there were substituted thedates between the first day of January, 1978 and the date of commencement of this Act.17. Occupation of village land by non-village organisation(1) A non-village organisation to which this Part applies is–(a)(b)(c)a government department or any office or part of it;a public corporation or other parastatal body or any office, part, division or itssubsidiary body;a corporate or other body, a majority of whose members or shareholders are citizensregistered or licensed to operate under any law for the time being in force in Tanzaniaapplicable to that corporate or other body which does not consist of a majority of themembers of the village; or any similarly composed subsidiary of that corporate orother body.(2) Where, at the commencement of this Act, any non-village organisation occupies villageland under a granted right of occupancy, that granted right of occupancy shall, notwithstandingthat it exists in village land, continue to be a granted right of occupancy for the remainder of itsterm.(3) Subject to the provisions of the Land Act *(35), relating to disposition of a right ofoccupancy the Commissioner shall continue to be responsible for the management of the rightof occupancy to which this section applies.(4) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that a village council is managing the village land inan efficient manner, he may, in writing delegate his functions of managing a right of occupancyto which this section applies to that village council subject to any conditions which he shallthink fit to include in the instrument of delegation.(5) On and after the coming into operation of this Act, a non-village organisation which