• If a duplicate(owners)certificate of title is lost or destroyed or becomes obliterated, persons with knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the said certificate may make a statutory declaration stating the facts, particulars of all encumbrances affecting the land title to the best of the declarant’s knowledge and belief.
• The first step is for the person interested to make an application by a formal letter to the Registrar and attached a statutory declaration declaring the facts surrounding the lost certificate explaining when it was obtained when it was last seen and how it was possibly lost.
• If the Registrar is satisfied with the truth contained in the declaration, a notice shall be publicized in the Uganda gazette of the Registrar’s intention to issue a special certificate if no objection is raised within a period of 30 days.
• If no objection is raised, then the registrar will proceed to grant a special certificate of title after payment of the relevant fees and stamp duty.

• Two recent passport photos
• Photocopy of the original land title
• Identification ID i.e National identification Card
• General receipts of payment.
• Letter of application for Land title Replacement title
• Gazette extract
• Statutory declaration form

Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development - Head Office,
Plot 13 – 15 Parliament Avenue
Kampala , Uganda
P.O.Box 7096,
Kampala , Uganda
Tel: (256) – 414 – 373511 / (256) – 791 – 622191/ (256) – 772 – 463240
Email: mlhud@mlhud.go.ug Website: Link

Anyone who lost original land certificate of occupancy, torn or destroyed,can apply for a special land title.

• Registration fees 15,000
• Stamp duty 10,000
• Application fees 10,000
• Bank fees 2,500

A replaced land title has no validity period as long as it is issued by the authorized body and there must be a genuine cause for requesting for one.

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Processing time may be ten days (10) to four (4) weeks.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites. 	
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

• Visit the ministry of lands to acquire necessary application forms and accurately fill them.
• Make copies of all the necessary documents.
• Make all payments; and
• Submit application to the land office.

• Full name and address of applicant;
• Details of the Land in question i.e. location, plot and block numbers;
• Details of original owner.
• Area Land Committee Report
• District Land Officer Technical Report

Please provide the need for the procedure. e.g. Birth Certificate - why do we need to have a birth certificate? 
 

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

• External Link
• External Link 2
• External Link 3

More information which might help people.