REVERSION OF CERTAIN LANDS [ CAP. 432.  1
CHAPTER 432
REVERSION OF CERTAIN LANDS ACT
To make provision for the restitution of land expropriated by virtue of
the Building Development Areas Act.
1st September, 2001
ACT XVII of 2001.
Short title.
Act.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires - 
Cap. 303.
"Building Development Area" has the same meaning assigned to
it in the Act.
Reversion of land 
and rights and 
interest therein.
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act any land within a
Building Development Area acquired in full ownership under the
provisions of the Act as provided in article 5 thereof, upon
publication in the Government Gazette of a legal notice to the
effect that Government is relinquishing ownership of the said land,
shall with effect from the date on which the land in question was
acquired as aforesaid, and by virtue of this Act without any other
formality required bylaw, revert to the person or persons to whom
the land belonged, whether in full ownership or by title of direct or
bare ownership, direct or  utile dominium,  usufruct, use or
habitation, as if the acquisition by virtue of article 5 of the Act has
never taken place.
(2) Upon such reversion any charge, hypothec or privilege and
any other real right not mentioned in subarticle (1), as well as any
lease to which the land was subject, shall revive as if it had never
ceased to exist and shall continue to be operative, subject to the
cessation or extinction of such right which would have ceased or
have been extinguished before such reversion either in accordance
with any agreement or by operation of law had the acquisition
contemplated by the Act not taken place.
Cap. 296.
Registry in terms of the Land Registration Act within three months
of such reversion. Such registration will not entitle them to an
immediate issue of a "guaranteed title".
Cessation of rights 
to compensation.
4. (1) Upon the reversion aforesaid, any compensation
payable by virtue of the Act, or any other law, to any person
claiming a right or interest over or in any land acquired by virtue of
article 5 of the Act, including any compensation claimed for any
period during which such land was not in his possession or any
rights thereon were not exercisable, shall cease to be payable:
Provided that where, in respect of any land, right or
interest, a person can show to the satisfaction of the Civil Court,
First Hall, that had the land or right not reverted to him as provided
by article 3, the compensation to which he would have been entitled
would have been greater than the value of the land, right or interest
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aforesaid at the time of reversion, such person shall be entitled to
be paid the difference in value, and where no land, right or interest
can revert by virtue of that article, the compensation payable by
virtue of the Act, or any other law, shall continue to be payable.
(2) Any claim made under the proviso to subarticle (1) shall
only be entertained if made by writ of summons filed before the
lapse of one year from the coming into force of this Act.
Where rights have 
been transferred.
5. Where the persons from whom the land in question was
acquired have transferred their rights to compensation to any other
person whether by act  inter vivos  or  causa mortis,  the transfer shall,
unless otherwise agreed to in the act of transfer, be deemed to be
the transfer of the land or other interest therein represented by such
rights.
