Act 16 Functions and procedure of Board on application for certificate of customary ownership. Land Act 1998 8. (I) The Board, shall upon receipt of the report and recommendations of the Committee referred to in subsection (6) of section 7, consider the application in the light of that report and those recommendations and may( a) confirm the recommendations of the Committee and where those recommendations are to issue a certificate of a customary ownership with or without conditions, restrictions or limitations, issue that certificate of customary ownership accordingly and where the recommendations are to refuse to issue a certificate of customary ownership, confirm that refusal; or (b) where the recommendation of the Committee is to issue a certificate, subject to conditions, restrictions or limitations, vary the recommendations of the Committee and issue a certificate of customary ownership, with or without conditions, restrictions or limitations in accordance with any such variations as it may make; or ( c) return the report to the Committee with directions as to what action, including further investigations or hearings the Committee is to undertake on the application; (d) reject the report of the Committee and· where the recommendation of the Committee is to issue a certificate, refuse to issue a certificate and where the recommendation of the Committee is to refuse to issue a certificate, issue a certificate. (2) Where the Board rejects or varies a recommendation of the Committee, it shall give reasons for its decision. (3) Where the Committee has recorded, under paragraph ( e) of subsection ( 1) of section 6 that a person is entitled to the benefit of a third party right, a certificate of customary ownership may only be issued by the Board subject to that third party right, a record of which shall be endorsed on the certificate. 16