HOW TO OBTAIN A LEASEHOLD LAND TITLE IN UGANDA
• Pick Application Form 8 from the District Land Office or Area Land Committee, fill it,and attach 4 passport photos.
• Pay the required fees and submit them to the Area Land Committee
• The Area Land Committee receives the Application and issues a notice for a public hearing using Form 10.
• The Area Land Committee visits the land together with the neighbors for purposes of filling and signing the Demarcation Form 23.
• The Area Land Committee complies an inspection report and submits the documents to the District Land Office.
• The District Land officer prepares a technical report based on the Physical Planning Guidelines, in consultation with the established Physical Planning Committee.
• Then the District Land officer forwards all the documents to the District Land Board for approval, after which, the documents are returned to the District Land Officer to prepare the lease offer using Form 18.
- The district land officer prepares the lease offer.
• The district land officer prepares forwarding letter in favour of the approved application
• The District Land Officer then forwards all the copies of the documents to the registrar of Land registration in district.
• Pick lease offer and forwarding letter from the district land officer then pay application fee,premium and ground rent where applicable.
• presents the full set of original documents(Fully completed Forms 8, 10, 18 and 23 ,Area Land Committee Report ,District Land Officer’s Technical Report , 3 Passport Photos ,A forwarding letter and , Receipts of payment of Application fees, premium and Ground Rent) and a photocopy of the same to the Department of Land Administration for checking.
• The photocopy is stamped ‘Received’ and returned to the you,you should be told when to checkwith them.
• Check with the Department of Land Administration to confirm their approval or rejection.
• If the application is approved, go ahead to make payment of fees to bank as advised;If rejected then a letter explaining rejection is written and all documents returned to you for correction and re-submission.
• The documents are forwarded to the office registrar of Titles for preparation and issuance of Lease agreements.
• Office of registrar of title prepares and issues a lease agreement in repect to the grant
• Pick the Lease agreements and submit them for signing and sealing by the Chairperson and Secretary of Uganda Land Commission or the District Land Board .
• Pay stamp duty, which is 1% of the premium and 1% of the annual rent multiplied by the number of years granted,
• Present fully signed and sealed lease documents by the Uganda Land Commission or the District Land Board Chairperson and Secretary and Lease agreements embossed by URA to office of registrar of titles for issuance of leasehold certificate of title.
• The Applicant is given a photocopy of the Lease agreements stamped ‘Received’
• The office of registrar of titles for prepares leasehold certificate of title and issues it to you.
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