The Village Land Act R.E. 2002

"Operation Vijiji" means and includes the settlement and resettlement of people in villagescommenced or carried out during and at any time between the first day of January, 1970 for orin connection with the purpose of implementing the policy of villagisation, and includes theresettlement of people within the same village, from one part of the village land to another partof that village land or from one part of land claimed by any such person as land which he heldby virtue of customary law to another part of the same land, and the expropriation of it inconnection with Operation Vijiji so defined;"order of abandonment" means an order made under section 45 of this Act and includes aprovisional and a final order of abandonment;"order of temporary assignment" means an order issued under section 43 of this Act;"public land" means and includes all the land of Tanzania;"register" means a register prescribed under section 21 of this Act for the recording ofrights and interests in and dispositions of and in connection with customary rights ofoccupancy;"reserved land" means land referred to by section 7 of this Act;"right of occupancy" means a title to the use and occupation of land and includes the titleof a Tanzanian citizen of African descent or a community of Tanzanian citizens of Africandescent using or occupying land in accordance with customary law;"spot adjudication" has the meaning ascribed to it by section 49 of this Act;"supervision order" means an order issued under section 42 of this Act;"transfer land" means general or reserved land which is to be transferred to become a partof village land;"unexhausted improvement" means any thing or any quality permanently attached to theland directly resulting from the expenditure of capital or labour by an occupier or any personacting on his behalf and increasing the productive capacity, the utility, the sustainability or theenvironmental quality thereof and includes trees, standing crops and growing produce whetherof an agricultural or horticultural nature but does not include the results of ordinary cultivation;"village" means a village registered as such under the Local Government (DistrictAuthorities) Act *(7);"village adjudication" means the process of adjudication provided for by sections 51 to 55of this Act;"village adjudication adviser" means the person appointed to be a village adjudication