Here is a step-by-step process you need to follow to subdivide your land and get title for each portion subdivided.

1.      As the registered proprietor, you write a letter to the district land officer informing him or her about your desire to subdivide the land.

2.      You will then get a registered surveyor to prepare, sign and stamp a request to survey addressed to district senior staff surveyor of the area where land is situate.

3.      The instruction to survey is issued and printed accordingly and the surveyor will open the boundaries of the piece of land being subdivided, parcels out the exact piece by measuring the area (size) from all ends of the land.

4.      The surveyor will obtain form PPA (Under the Physical Planning Act, 2010) from a physical planer at local authority fully filled by the registered owner, dated and signed by all the necessary Parties.

5.      The surveyor will present fully filled instruction to survey, an Area Schedule, Receipts of checking fees, Deed Plan fees, and photocopy Certificate of title and passport photographs to district senior staff surveyor to pass it and give instrument number to survey that piece of land.

6.      The mutation form together with accompanying documents is forwarded to ministry senior staff surveyor at land registry for approval. Once the documents are approved by the ministry senior surveyor, they are forwarded to the drawing office.

7.      The deed print/plan or blue print (now it is white) is then posted to the ministry of lands and forwarded for printing. The deed print/plan is printed and signed by both the senior staff cartographer and ministry senior staff surveyor at land registry zone.

8.      Submit the deed print/plan and the mother duplicate certificate of title together with, Receipts and Photocopies of all documents to the Office of registrar of Title.

9.      Upon receiving the documents, registrar of titles reviews them again and issues instrument numbers to effect subdivisions on the mother title and processing of the titles for the other subdivided portions.

10.  The registrar then authorizes printing of the titles and typing of the particulars thereof and the registered proprietor picks the subdivided titles with the mother title upon presentation of the received copies.

By Martin Anguzi, a registered surveyor
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