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District Development Fund Act [Chapter 29:06].

Country/Territory
Zimbabwe
Document type
Legislation
Date
1982 (1988)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to provide for the control and application of a fund to be used for the purpose of developing Communal Land and such other areas as may be declared by the Minister; to provide for the raising of revenue for such fund; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil
Keyword
Agricultural development Special fund Public land Land-use planning
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations
Abstract

This Act stipulates that the fund established in terms of section 3 of the African Development Fund Act shall, on and after the fixed date, continue in existence and shall be known as the District Development Fund. The trustee of the Fund shall be the Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development or any other Minister to be appointed by the President. This Minister shall, subject to this Act, have the sole management, control and use of the Fund. The Minister, after consultation with the Minister responsible for agriculture, may, by Statutory Instrument, declare such rural area to be a development area for the purposes of this Act (sect. 5). Section 8 places limits on expenditure from Fund. The objects to which the Fund may be applied shall be the development of Communal Land and development areas (sect. 3).

Full text
English
Website
www.parlzim.gov.zw