The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

any tax or due to the village council or any other person or organisation named in the offer,that acceptance shall not operate to conclude a contract for the grant of a customary right ofoccupancy unless and until that sum of money is paid in full to the payee.(4) A payee who has received a sum of money under subsection (3) shall immediatelyprovide a receipt for that payment to the person who has made that payment.(5) Where, at any time after the conclusion of a transaction it is shown to the satisfaction ofthat person or organisation charged with the responsibility for preventing or combatingcorruption that any part of the process of obtaining a customary right of occupancy waseffected by a corrupt practice, that customary right of occupancy shall without any furtheraction, and notwithstanding any other rule of law to the contrary, be deemed to be void and ofno effect and the grantee of that void customary right of occupancy shall, without prejudice toany action which may be taken against that person under any law dealing with corruption,immediately become a trespasser on that land, liable to suffer all such action and penaltiesapplicable to trespassers.25. Grant of a customary right of occupancy(1) Where a contract for a grant of a customary right of occupancy has been concluded, avillage council shall, within not more than ninety days of that conclusion, grant a customaryright of occupancy to the applicant who accepted the offer referred to in section 23 by issuinga certificate, to be known as a `certificate of customary right of occupancy' to that applicant.(2) A certificate of customary right of occupancy shall be–(a)(b)(c)(d)in a prescribed form;signed by the Chairman and secretary of the village council;signed or marked with a personal mark by the grantee of the customary right ofoccupancy to which it relates at the foot of each page of the certificate;signed, sealed and registered by the District Land Officer of the district in which thevillage is situate.26. Payment of premium on grant of a right of occupancy to a non-village organization(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 17 the village councilmay, require the payment of a premium on the grant of a customary right of occupancy to anon-village organisation or a person or group of persons referred to in subsection (3) of section22.(2) In determining the amount of any premium, the village council shall seek and takeaccount of the advice of the Commissioner, who in giving that advice which may be in the formof published advice to all village councils shall have regard to the principles governing the