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Lands (Amendment) Act, 1996

This Act is the Lands (Amendment) Act, 1996, and it amends section 31(2) of the principal Act by changing the list of paragraph items and adding fees for transactions in land.

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Act 20 of 1996
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This Act is the Lands (Amendment) Act, 1996, and it amends section 31(2) of the principal Act by changing the list of paragraph items and adding fees for transactions in land.

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This Act is the Lands (Amendment) Act, 1996, and it amends section 31(2) of the principal Act by changing the list of paragraph items and adding fees for transactions in land.

Lam!s [;J.1ncodmcnt) __ [No •. 20 of-l996--701- - . :i;� GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA ACT No. 20 of 1996 Date of assent: 18th June. 1996 An Act to amend the Lands Act [ 28th ,June, 1996 ENACTED by the Parliament or Zambia. 1. This Act may be cited as the Lands (Amend1ucnt) Act, 1996, and shall he read as one with the Lands Act, 1995, in this Act referred to as the principal Act. 2. Section thirty-one or the principal Act is amended in subsection (2), by the- Enactment Shon title Act No. 29 ofl995 Amendment of section 31 ( a) deletion of" and" in paragraph (c) afterthe semi-colon; (h) insertion, immediately after paragraph ( e) of the following new paragraph (f): (f) fees ror transactions in land; and (c) re-numbering of'the existing paragraph (f) as paragraph (g). Single copies of this 1\r.t may be obtained from the Govemmenl Printer, P.O. Box 30/36.10/00 Lusaka, Price K500.00 each.
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