Kenya Land Titles Act Cap 282

CHAPTER 282
THE LAND TITLES ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Part I—Preliminary
Section
1—Short title.
2—Application.
3—Interpretation.
Part II—Adjudication of Claims
4—Recorder of Titles.
5—Deputy Recorder of Titles may perform acts of
Recorder of Titles.
6—Jurisdiction of Land Registration Court.
7—Judgments of Recorder of Titles to be final and conclusive,
subject to appeal.
8—Recording of proceedings; consolidation of claims.
9—Venue of Court.
10—Qualified surveyor to be attached to Court.
11—Oath of Recorder of Titles.
12—Seal of Recorder of Titles.
13—Presumption of authenticity of documents of Recorder of
Titles.
14—Alteration of forms.
15—Making of claims.
16—District Commissioner to give notice to residents;
and may sign claims of illiterates.
17—All land for which no certificate of ownership granted
deemed Government land.
18—Recorder of Titles to deal with claims.
19—Representation of interested persons.
20—Certificate of title to be granted to successful claimant.
21—Effect of certificate of title.
22—Boundaries to be shown on plan and to be marked on the
land; penalty for alteration of boundary marks.
23—Instruments of title to be deposited with Recorder of Titles
on issue of certificate of title.
24—Endorsement of instrument relating to other property;
Recorder of Titles to retain instruments deposited.
25—Death of claimant
26—Recorder of Titles to keep register of certificates of title.

27—Contents of certificate of title.
28—Matters excepted from certificates of title.
29—When certificate of title deemed to be registered.
30—Certified copies.
31—Search of register.
32—All claims to be authenticated by claimant.
33—Court fees and costs.
34—Action to recover possession of land to lie in certain cases.
35—Notice of action; limitation of actions.
36—Protection of purchasers, lessees and mortgagees.
37—Rights barred if no claim made.
38—Saving of rights of Government and of public.
39—Recorder of Titles may summon person to produce
certificate of title for cancellation or correction.
40—Procedure on summons.
41—Recorder of Titles may issue secondary certificate of title.
42—Notice to be given before issue of such certificate.
43—Offences and penalties.
44—Conviction not to affect remedy of persons injured.
45—Recorder of Titles may issue writ of possession in favour
of Government.
46—Persons hindering execution of writ may be called upon
to show cause.
47—Penalty for hindering execution of writ.
48—Exemption from stamp duty.
49—Fees.
50—Payment of fees.
51—Protection of Recorder of Titles.
52—Grant of certificate of title where claimant has agreed to
exchange with Government.
53—Grant of certificate of title where no valid claim made.
Part III—Registration of Documents After Certificate of
Ownership Granted
54—Application of Part.
55—Interpretation of Part.
56—Principal Registrar and registrars.
57—Documents to be registered.
58—Effect of non-registration.
59—No charge to be created except by registered document.
60—Priority given by registration not by execution.
61—Registration of judgments, decrees and orders of court.
62—Registration of probates and letters of administration.
63—Provision regarding property in local authority area.
64—Registrar may call for proof and give notice to third
parties.
65—Plans and descriptions of property.
66—Mode of description of property.
67—Admission of documents containing insufficient
description or particulars.
68—Documents unsuitable for photostat copying.
69—Appeal from order refusing registration.
70—Where registration ordered conditionally.
71—Document not written in specified language to be
accompanied by translation.
72—Caveats.
73—Fee to be paid before registration.
74—Method of registration.
75—Document when registered to be endorsed by registrar.
76—Where holdings lying in two or more registration areas.
77—Power of registrar to hold inquiry.
78—Appeals to High Court.
79—Protection of registrars.
80—Searches.
81—Errors in register may be corrected.
82—Cancellation of determined entries and destruction of
spent documents.
83—Cap. 285 not to apply to documents registrable under this
Act.
Part IV—Supplemental
84—Saving of things done under certain rules.
85—Where claimant transfers land, transferee may give notice
of transfer.
86—Transferee may be heard as if he had made claim for
ownership.
87—Recorder of Titles to adjudicate as if original claimant and
transferee had made claim.
88—Notice of transfer made after Recorder of Titles’ judgment
but before issue of certificate.
89—Recorder of Titles to give effect to such transfer.
90—Transferee to pay cost of additional survey or marks, etc.
91—Notice of mortgage or other interest created after time for
making claims has expired but before grant of certificate.
92—Recorder of Titles to adjudicate on such mortgage or
interest.
93—Notice of transfer of mortgage or other interest after time
for making claims has expired but before grant of
certificate.
94—Power of Recorder of Titles to grant certificate
of mortgage or other interest.
95—Claims by persons having Government titles.
96—Certificates of title in respect of Government land to be
registered in Government lands register.
97—Part III not to apply to entries in Government lands
register.
98—Issue of decree by Recorder of Titles and execution
thereof.
99—Rules.
SCHEDULES