The Ministry of Land and Rural Resettlement is responsible for the acquisition, distribution, administration and management of the State agricultural Land Resources on a long lease basis but without the mandate to sale the land resources The Rural District Councils together with the Traditional Leadership are by law only mandated to administer and management land use and leases in Communal Lands including A1 Resettlement Areas (Villages). The land being managed by the Ministry of Lands is supposed to be planned by the Department of Physical Planning / Local Authorities.
At the same time, the Communal Lands Act and Rural District Council Act give powers to the RDCs to have administrative powers for the development of communal areas. Rural District Council Act to administer land within their areas of jurisdiction, including former commercial areas that have become resettlement areas.