[1] Parliament had intervened in the unhappy state of affairs of developers imposing all kinds of fees and conditions on purchasers and sub-purchasers when they want to sell their properties to which strata titles have not been issued. The Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 (HDA) was amended to allow only the imposition of RM50.00 (s 22D(4)) for the fee that a developer may charge to verify and confirm the beneficial interest of the purchaser and to take away the need for concurrence of the developer to a sub-sale (s 22D(1)) and only requires the developer to be given a copy of the Deed of Assignment (DOA) and other documents (s 22D(2)) presumably for the purpose of updating their record so that the strata title when issued is transferred to the right ultimate purchaser and beneficial owner (s 22D(3)).

[2] However the luxury of such a protection applies to only housing developments under the HDA which cover residential development, shop houses and recently even service apartments. It still leaves purchasers of office lots and industrial lots very much at the mercy of the developer when it