Power of Minister to make grant, etc., in case of invalid title

(1) Where the title of any land occupied or acquired by any person is invalid in law as against the Government, the Minister may, upon such terms as appear to him just and reasonable, make a grant title or enter into a lease with respect thereto– (a) to, upon or with any person who bona fide purchased the land from any other person for valuable consideration; or 17 (b) to, upon or with any person who derives title from any person who purchased the land bona fide from some other person for valuable consideration. (2) For that purpose the Minister may issue his fiat which the Registrar shall enter in the National Lands Book and in the third column headed “Remarks”, shall insert and sign the words “confirmation of title by the Minister’s Fiat of the day of.........,”.