Statutory Instrument 288 of 2000[Cap. 20:18
IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement has in terms of section 15 of the Rural Land Act [Chapter 20:18], made the following regulations: – 1. These regulations may be cited as the Rural Land (Farm Sizes) (Amendment) Regulations, 2000 (No. 1) 2. Section 3 of the Rural Land (Farm Sizes) Regulations, 1999, published in Statutory Instrument 419 of 1999 (hereinafter called “the principle regulations”) is amended in subsection (1) – (a) in paragraph (b) by the deletion of “Natural Region II” and the substitution of “Natural Region IIa”;(b) in paragraph (c) by the deletion of “Natural Region III” and the substitution of Natural Region IIb”;(c) in paragraph (d) by the deletion of “Natural Region IV” and the substitution of “Natural Region III”;(d) in paragraph (e) by the deletion of “Natural Region V and the substitution of “Natural Region IV”;(e) in paragraph (f) by the deletion of “Natural Region VI” and the substitution of “Natural Region V”.
3. Section 4 of the principle regulations is amended by the repeal of subsection (1) and the substitution of –
“(1) Subject to sections 5 and 6, no person shall own a farm situated in – (a) Natural Region I if the size of the farm exceeds two hundred and fifty hectares; or(b) Natural Region IIa if the size of the farm exceeds three hundred and fifty hectares; or(c) Natural Region IIb if the size of the farm exceeds four hundred hectares; or(d) Natural Region III if the size of the farm exceeds five hundred hectares; or(e) Natural Region IV if the size of the farm exceeds one thousand five hundred hectares; or(f) Natural Region V if the size of the farm exceeds two thousand hectares.”.