Get Land Control Board consent to sell, lease or subdivide agricultural land
State Department for Lands and Physical Planning / Land Control Boards · sources read 30 Sep 2026
If you sell, lease, charge, subdivide or otherwise deal in agricultural land, apply to the Land Control Board for your area within 6 months of signing the agreement. Without its consent the deal is void.
- Fee
- KSh 3,000Land Control Board consent applicationKSh 10,000Special consent
- How long
- About 30 days
- Deadline
- Apply within 6 months of making the agreement. Only the High Court can extend this.
- Where
- At the Land Control Board for the area where the land is, through the Ministry of Lands
What you need
- Filled Land Control Board consent application form
- Original, current official search of the land
Steps
- After signing the sale or lease agreement, apply to the Land Control Board for the area where the land is, within 6 months.
- Hand in the filled application form with an official search and pay the application fee.
- The board looks at the request. If approved, you get a consent that must be registered together with the transfer or lease documents.
Watch out
- Without the board's consent the transaction is void for all purposes.
- If a deal is void for lack of consent, money paid under it can be recovered as a debt.
- If the board refuses, you can appeal within 30 days of getting its decision.
- The board must refuse if the buyer or tenant is not a Kenyan citizen (or a company or co-operative whose members are all Kenyan citizens).
Who can apply
- Parties to a sale, transfer, lease, mortgage, exchange, partition or subdivision of agricultural land.
- Land inside a municipality or township is not agricultural land under the Act.
Official sources (3)
- Issuance of Land Control Board Consent lands.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026
- SDLPP Service Charter (updated 2025) lands.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026
- Land Control Act (Cap. 302) new.kenyalaw.org · read 30 Sep 2026