Land Act
Act 16
1998
27. (I) The basic rights and duties of the members of a
community under a common land management scheme are as
follows( a) the right to make reasonable use of the common
land, jointly with all other members of the group,
in accordance with the terms of the scheme;
( b) the right to gather wood fuel
and building materials
and harvest the resources of the common land in
accordance with the terms of the scheme;
( c) the duty to con1ply with and assist in the
enforcement of the rules set out in the scheme;
( d) the right to exclude non-members of the group from
the common land, other than those non-members
who have been permitted to enter and use the
common land;
( e) the duty to bear a reasonable and proportionate share
of any expenses or losses incurred in using and
managing the common land or through any
natural disaster affecting the common land;
(f)
the duty to support the establishment and
management of a fund for the purposes of
carrying out activities on and improvements to
the common land in accordance with the terms of
the scheme and to pay into the fund any fees and
penalties collected under the scheme;
( g) the duty not to transfer any rights to occupy or use
or gather the produce of any common land to any
person whether for a fee or otherwise, except in
accordance with the terms of the agreement and
the rules of the scheme;
(h) the duty to comply with any decisions of the
Association or any dispute settlement body
estaplished by the Association to settle disputes
arising from the management of the scheme;
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Basic rights
and duties
of members
of
community
us mg
common
land.
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