Establishment of Land Adjudication Tribunal and appointment of officers

(1) on or after the publication of a declaration made under section 3 of this Act, the Minister shall appoint a Land Adjudication Tribunal for the adjudication area consisting of an Adjudicator and two other members. Each member shall be qualified as a land surveyor, lawyer or land economist; provided that not more than two members of the Tribunal shall be land surveyors or lawyers or land economists, and that an experienced magistrate may take the place of a lawyer. The Adjudicator shall preside over the Tribunal, which shall adjudicate upon and determine all matters referred to it; provided that two members, including the Adjudicator, shall form a quorum for the Tribunal. Land 8 (2) The Public Services Commission may appoint such demarcators, records officers, surveyors and other officers as may be necessary for performing the duties and exercising the powers imposed and conferred upon them by this Act. (3) The Adjudicator may issue such general or special directions as he thinks necessary to the officers appointed under subsection (2) of this Act, and May himself perform and exercise all or any of the duties and powers conferred under this Act to such officers, save that, unless he is himself a qualified surveyor, he shall not perform the technical functions of a surveyor. (4) The Adjudicator shall be competent to administer oaths and take affidavits in any enquiry made by the Tribunal and to issue summonses, notices or orders requiring the attendance of such persons and the production of such documents as he may consider necessary for carrying out the adjudication. (5) The Adjudicator, and any other officer pointed under this section, may at any reasonable time enter upon any land within the adjudication area for the purposes of adjudication, demarcation or survey of any parcel therein; provided that not less than seven clear days’ notice shall be given, and may summon any person who can give information regarding the boundaries of any such parcel to point out the boundaries.