SECTION 87 LOCAL AUTHORITIES ORDINANCE 1996 states that:

(1). It is the duty of the seller or transferor and the purchaser or transferee to notify the Local Authority using Form F within 3 months after the sale or transfer

(2). It is the duty of the inheritor to notify the local authority in Form G within 1 year after the death of the deceased

(3) On receipt of such notice, the Local Authority may require the production of an instrument showing the change of ownership

(The instrument accepted is a copy of the land title or a copy of the land title extract (printed at the Land and Survey Department) or a land lease book/land ownership book or a Letter of Declaration from the Administrator from the District Office or a Memorandum of Transfer or Sale and Purchase Agreement or a Letter of Declaration of Ownership from the District Office for a village house situated on NCR land)