KANUNI

⚠️⚠️⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER ⚠️⚠️⚠️

KANUNI IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA OR ANY GOVERNMENT ENTITY.

This app is published by YILAA (Youth Initiative for Land in Africa), a non-governmental organization (NGO). It is NOT an official government service, is NOT endorsed by any government body, and does NOT represent the Government of Tanzania.

━━━ WHAT KANUNI DOES ━━━

Kanuni provides offline access to publicly available legal texts related to land ownership, use, and management in Tanzania. All content is aggregated from publicly accessible official sources listed below.

━━━ COMPLETE LIST OF SOURCES ━━━

Every legal document in this app comes from one of the following public official sources. Users can and should verify each text at its source:

1. TANZANIA LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (TanzLII)

Primary source for consolidated legislation.

URL: https://tanzlii.org

2. PARLIAMENT OF TANZANIA (Bunge la Tanzania)

Source for acts passed by Parliament.

URL: https://www.parliament.go.tz

3. MINISTRY OF LANDS, HOUSING AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DEVELOPMENT

Source for land policies and ministerial regulations.

URL: https://www.lands.go.tz

4. FAOLEX DATABASE (FAO Legal Office)

Source for land-related environmental legislation.

URL: https://www.fao.org/faolex

5. TANZANIA GOVERNMENT PORTAL

General entry point for government publications.

URL: https://www.tanzania.go.tz

6. TANZANIA OFFICIAL GAZETTE ARCHIVE

Source for gazetted amendments and notices.

URL: https://gazettes.africa/gazettes/tz

━━━ SPECIFIC CONTENT MAPPING ━━━

• National Land Policy of 1995 → Ministry of Lands (lands.go.tz)

• Land Act 1999 Cap. 113 → TanzLII (tanzlii.org) / Parliament (parliament.go.tz)

• Village Land Act 1999 → TanzLII / Parliament

• Land Use Planning Act → TanzLII

• Related regulations and gazetted notices → Tanzania Gazette Archive

━━━ LIMITATIONS ━━━

The legal texts shown in Kanuni are provided FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. They:

• DO NOT replace the official texts published by competent authorities

• May not reflect the latest amendments

• Are NOT legal advice

• Should NOT be used as sole reference for legal decisions

For any legal decision, consult:

• The official sources listed above

• A qualified lawyer registered with the Tanzanian Bar

━━━ FEATURES ━━━

• Automatic download of public legal texts

• Offline reading (once downloaded)

• Full-text search across documents

• 4 languages: French, English, Swahili, Portuguese

• No ads, no personal data collection

━━━ ABOUT YILAA ━━━

YILAA (Youth Initiative for Land in Africa) is a NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION working for equitable land access in Africa. YILAA is not part of any government.

Website: https://www.yilaa.org

Contact / Report inaccuracies: [email protected]

━━━ DISCLAIMER (REPEATED) ━━━

This is a NON-GOVERNMENTAL, community-driven aggregator of publicly available legal texts. It does NOT provide government services, does NOT represent any government agency, and is NOT an official channel for Tanzanian law.