Historically, before 1964 the Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency (BPRA) was known as Administrator General’s Office established in 1911 under the Act Administrator General’s Decree Cap. 23. After the 1964 revolution, the office had changed its administrative structure and recognized as Register General where as it continued to change due to amendment of various Acts which then in 2013 the Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency officially established under Act No. 13 of 2012. It is a semi -autonomous registration Agency
that implement is activities under the supervision of the following Acts: The Secured Transaction on Movable Properties Act No. 4 of 2011; The Zanzibar Industrial Property Act No. 4 of 2008; The Societies Act No. 6 of 1995; The Business Names Registration Decree Cap. 168; The Companies Decree Cap. 153; The Transfer of Properties Decree Cap. 150; The Registration of Documents Decree Cap. 99; Business Entities Registration Act No.12 of 2012; and Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency Act No. 13 of 2012.