This Act amends the Communal Land Reform Act so as to: insert a definition of “local authority area”; to substitute the definitions of “Minister” and “Permanent Secretary”; and to modify a reference to specified land in Schedule 1. A “local authority area” means: (a) an area declared or deemed to have been declared under section 3 of the Local Authorities Act, 1992, to be a municipality, town or village; (b) an area declared under section 31 of the Regional Councils Act, 1992, to be a settlement