Nothing except as herein specially otherwise enacted shall affect the past operation of any written law relating to land tenure heretofore in force in the Mainland or in Labuan or of any order made or the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered or of any right, title or interest created thereunder.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS

Effect of Section 2

Refer to Chin Kim Phin v. Director Of Lands & Surveys, Sabah & Anor (Encl 1) [2020] MLRHU 339 where the High Court stated that:

"From s 3 of the Land ordinance (Sabah) (Cap 68), the result is that if prior to the coming into force of Land ordinance (Sabah) (Cap 68), rights had been acquired or accrued and liabilities had been incurred by the past operation of any written law relating


S.4 Interpretation

In this ordinance the following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them;

"abandonment"means the failure on the part of any holder of a title to land to use such land for the purposes for which it was alienated for such period and to such extent as may be prescribed in each case;

"agricultural purpose"includes the cultivation of any crop (including trees cultivated for the purpose of their produce), herbs, market gardening, the breeding and keeping of honey-bees, livestock and reptiles, and aquaculture or any combination thereof;

"alienate"means to lease, or otherwise dispose of State land on behalf of the Government in consideration of the payment of such rent and of such premium, if any, as may be required;

"charge"means any charge created on land for the purpose of securing the payment of money, and also the instrument by


S.5 Government property in land

The entire property in and control of State land or land reserved for a public purpose is and shall be vested solely in the Government.




S.6 Unlawful occupation not to establish any rights

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in thisordinanceor in any written law relating to limitation of suits in force in Sabah, no unlawful occupation of State land or land reserved for a public purpose or residential purpose or occupation under temporary licence for however long a period shall establish any right, title or interest in State land or land reserved for a public purpose or residential purpose or create any right to demand a title to such land from the Government.

(2) Adverse possession of land for any length of time whatsoever shall not constitute a bar to the bringing of any action for the recovery thereof by the owner or any person entitled to an interest therein, and accordingly, any written law relating to the limitation of suits in force in Sabah shall in no circumstances operate to extinguish any title or interest in land.




S.7 Classification of State land

State land for the purpose of this ordinance is divided in the following classes :

(a) Town Lands.

(b) Country Lands.




S.8 Declaration of town land

The Minister may declare any land within certain specified limits to be town land. After the date of such declaration no more land within the defined limits may be alienated, except under section 18, otherwise than in accordance with Part III.




S.9 Alienation of State land

(1) Subject to any general or special direction of the Cabinet the Director may alienate State land on such terms or in such manner as is authorised by this ordinance and may also impose special conditions in respect thereof to be set out in the title.

(2) In particular such conditions may specify the particular product or class of products which or which alone is to be cultivated, and may forbid the cultivation of any particular product or class of products.




S.9A No alienation of State land in certain areas

No twith standing section 9, there shall be no alienation of State land in the areas specified in Schedule IIA.




S.10 State land to whom alienable

State land may be alienated only to;

(a) an individual person or persons:

Provided that in the case of a minor an adult person shall be added as guardian;

(b) a company, body corporate or society registered or specifically exempted from registration under any written law:

Provided that it is not prohibited by its constitution from holding land;

(c) (Deleted);

(d) any other person or body which may hereafter be empowered by the Minister by rule hereunder to hold land within Sabah.




S.11 Co-proprietors

Except in the case of land held by trustees, when land is held by co- proprietors they shall be entitled to the land in undivided shares equally, unless some other proportion shall have been registered.




S.12 Applications for State land

Applications for State land may be made to the Director, or to the Collector, and shall be substantially in the form of Schedule III.




S.13 Enquiry as to native rights

Upon the receipt of any application for unalienated country land it shall be the duty of the Collector to publish a notice calling upon any claimant to native customary rights in such land who is not yet in possession of a registered documentary title to make or send in a statement of his claim within a date to be specified in the notice. If no claim is made the land shall be dealt with as if no such rights existed.




S.14 Collector to decide claims

Claims to native customary rights shall be taken down in writing by the headman or by the Collector, and shall be decided by the Collector.




S.15 Definition of customary rights

Native customary rights shall be held to be;

(a) land possessed by customary tenure;

(b) land planted with fruit trees, when the number of fruit trees amounts to fifty and upwards to each hectare;

(c) isolated fruit trees, and sago, rotan, or other plants of economic value, that the claimant can prove to the satisfaction of the Collector were planted or upkept and regularly enjoyed by him as his personal property;

(d) grazing land that the claimant agrees to keep stocked with a sufficient number of cattle or horses to keep down the undergrowth;

(e) land that has been cultivated or built on within three years;

(f) burial grounds or shrines;

(g) usual rights of way for men or animals from rivers, roads, or houses to any or all of the above.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS

Requirement of Nature of Evidence to prove customary tenure

S.16 Procedure when rights established

(1) Native customary rights established under section 15 shall be dealt with either by money compensation or by a grant of the land to the claimant and in the latter case a title shall be issued under Part IV.

(2) Where the Collector decides that native customary rights established under section 15 shall be dealt with by money compensation, the affected land together with all buildings, erections and crops thereon shall vest in the Government free from all encumbrances and shall be deemed to have been surrendered by the lawful claimant thereof upon such decision being made.




S.17 Land dealings with natives

(1) Except with the written permission of the Minister all dealings in land between non-natives on the one hand and natives on the other hand are hereby expressly forbidden and no such dealings shall be valid or shall be recognised in any court of law unless they shall have been entered into and concluded before the 16th day of January, 1883, or in the terms of the next following clause.

(2) Any non-native desirous of purchasing land from a native shall address his application to the Secretary of Natural Resources who, if he sees fit to sanction such purchase, shall, if the native owner consent, require such native owner to execute a memorandum of surrender of the title and shall fix the premium and rent at which the land shall be leased by the Government to the applicant and such new lease shall be issued under Part II or III.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall be held to prevent dealings in land between any non-native and a native who is the holde


S.18 Temporary titles

(1) The Collector may issue Temporary Occupation Licences in the form of Schedule IV for the use of any State land for temporary purposes as may be specified in such licences. Any Temporary Occupation Licence issued under this subsection shall be non-transferable and shall be subject to the payment of such fee and to such other conditions as the Collector shall be endorse on such licence.

(2) No such licence shall be issued for a longer period than three years:

Provided that the Collector may renew such licence from time to time for any period provided that no licence shall be extended so that the total consecutive period of such licence, including any renewals, extends beyond three years unless the Director by writing under his hand agrees to such extension.




S.19 Survey

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) all lots shall be surveyed, and lines, boundary stones or other landmarks be set up and kept in repair by or at the expense of the lessees to the satisfaction of the Collector.

(2) The survey of lots held under Temporary Occupation Licence may be dispensed with if the Collector shall think fit.




S.20 Boundaries how determined

A title shall be deemed to alienate only the land within the boundaries as marked on the ground at the time of the survey on which the title is based.




S.21 Date of commencement how determined

The date of commencement of any title shall be the date on which the selection of the block of land has been approved, unless otherwise expressly provided.




S.22 Land revenue to be paid before issue of title

No definitive lease or title shall be issued until survey shall have been completed and all expenses and fees that may be due to Government in connection with the land comprised in the title shall have been paid by the owner:

Provided that the Minister may in particular cases or generally permit the postponement of payment of such expenses and fees on such conditions as he may deem fit.




S.23 Title to convey surface rights only

In the absence of any express provision to the contrary, every document of title issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed to vest in the holder thereof a surface right only in the land granted, and no right shall be conveyed thereby to extract, remove or transport within or beyond the boundaries of the said land, without licence, any timber or other forest produce or any earth, gravel, stones, coral, shell, guano, sand, loam or clay, or any bricks, lime, cement or other commodities manufactured from the materials aforesaid.




S.23A Materials in rivers or sea

It shall be an offence for any person to extract, remove or transport any stone, sand, coral, shell, loam, clay, root or vegetation from any river or sea without licence:

Provided that the Director may authorise in writing the doing of any act which would otherwise be prohibited by this section.




S.24 Minerals reserved to the Government

(1) All coal, minerals, precious stones and mineral oils are, and are deemed always to have been, reserved to the Government, together with the right to enter upon any lands and to search for, win, carry away and dispose of such articles in, on or under the same, and to resume such portions of land as may be necessary for examining or working any mines or for the removal of the products thereof, upon payment of compensation to the owner for damage to such lands or buildings thereon.

(2) It shall be lawful, and shall be deemed always to have been lawful, for the Minister to grant licences under this ordinance to others to search for, win, carry away and dispose of mineral oils and to grant leases of the same, together with the right to enter upon and occupy any lands for the purpose of operations under any such licences or leases, and all such other rights incidental or supplementary thereto as to him may seem pro


S.25 (Repealed)




S.26 River and seashore reserves, and ridges of hills

(1) Unless otherwise expressly provided in any title, the entire property in and control of the waters of all rivers, creeks, streams and watercourses, and of the seashore below high water mark is and shall be vested solely in the Government.

(2) The Government also has power to reserve such portion of land as may be deemed advisable along the banks of rivers, streams or creeks, or along the seashore above high water mark, or along the ridges of hills. Such reservations shall be shown on all documents of title.




S.27 Amount of compensation

The amount of compensation payable under sections 24, 25 and 30 shall be determined, in so far as may not be inconsistent with the provisions of these sections, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Land Acquisition ordinance [Cap. 69.].




S.28 Reserves for public or residential purpose

(1) The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may reserve any State lands which in his opinion are required for any public purpose or for a residential reserve. Such reservation shall fully describe the land and the purpose for which it is reserved and shall be conclusive evidence that the land is reserved for a public or residential purpose.

(2) When any land has been reserved under this or any previous Land ordinanc eand such reservation has not been revoked, every disposition thereof, except for the purpose for which such reservation was made, shall be void:

Provided that the Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, in any case in which a reserve has been created solely for the protection and furtherance of public works, authorise the officer for the time being having the control of such reserve to sanction the issue of leases by the Collector of the whole or any portion thereof, for any period not exceeding twenty-one years.

(3) The Yan


S.29 Implied obligations in titles

In every title there shall, by virtue of this ordinance, be implied, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, the following obligations on the part of the owner;

(a) the owner will duly pay, at the time and place and to the person prescribed for that purpose, the rent specified in the title, and any other land revenue that may be or become due:

Provided that when the land is held by co-proprietors they shall be jointly and severally liable;

(b) all landmarks by which the boundaries of such land are defined shall be duly maintained;

(c) no portion of such land shall be used for the burial of a human body without the written authority under the Burials ordinance [Cap. 19.].

The aforesaid obligations shall run with the land, and shall bind the owner or owners thereof for the time being in like manner as if their name or names were substitut


S.30 Specific rights reserved

(1) The following specified rights are reserved to the Government;

(a) the right at all times to take timber, earth, stone, clay, sand and other road-making material for the construction and repairs of railways, telegraphs, roads, bridges and other public works from alienated lands on payment of compensation for actual damage sustained by the owner;

(b) the right of making drains and sewers, constructing irrigation works and survey stations, laying down water pipes, erecting wires for telegraphs and other electric communications, and using, repairing and maintaining the same upon such land without paying compensation therefor. The officers of the Government and all persons thereunto duly authorised shall, at all reasonable times, have free access to such land for such purposes:

Provided that, where such works interfere with improvements, buildings or cultivated ground, compensation shall be allowed for disturbance or damage and the amount of such com


S.31 Implied conditions in titles

(1) Every title shall, by virtue of this ordinance, be subject, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, to the following implied conditions in respect of the land contained therein;

(a) the land revenue due in respect of such land shall be a first charge on such land;

(b) a Provisional Lease or Field Register shall give no claim to any area occupied in excess of the area mentioned therein;

(c) payment of rent on the area mentioned in a Provisional Lease or Field Register shall give no right to registration of a Lease or Native Title to the whole extent of that area if on survey the area is found not to be available;

(d) any owner of alienated land, whether his title be of a date prior or subsequent to the commencement of this ordinance, may apply to the Collector of the district in which his land is situate for a right of way from his land over any


S.32 Revision of rent

(1) Subject to the provisions of the following subsections, the rent of all State lands sold or alienated prior to or after the coming into force of this ordinance shall be liable to periodical revision, which may result in either enhancement or reduction.

(2) The first revision under this section may take place on or after 1st January, 1940, and subsequent revisions may take place at successive intervals of not less than fifteen years.

(3) At each such revision the rent reserved to the Government in respect of any such land may be revised by the Collector, but in making such revision no improvements made by the landowner or his predecessors in title shall be taken into account.




S.33 Fulfilment of conditions

(1) In the case of any owner who shall have fulfilled the condition of his lease as to cultivation, there may be endorsed on his lease and signed by the Director a memorandum to the effect that such condition has been fulfilled and that no further liability attaches to the said land in respect thereof.

(2) No memorandum endorsed on a lease under this section shall be held to bar or nullify any subsequent action that may be taken under section 36 in the event of the abandonment of the land held under the said lease.




S.34 Breach of conditions

(1) In the absence of an express condition to the contrary in the document of title, there shall by virtue of this section be implied in every document of title the condition that in case of a breach or default in the observance of any of the conditions of the said title, whether expressed or implied by this ordinance, or any previous Land ordinance, the Government may re-enter upon the land held thereunder and resume the whole or any portion thereof.

(2) The retention by an owner of land alienated under Part III or Part IV of such an area under jungle or uncultivated as may be necessary in the opinion of Government for the purpose of protecting existing cultivation or for the proper and effectual management of the estate shall not be held to be a breach of conditions of title within the meaning of this section.




S.35 Non-enforcement of conditions not to constitute waiver

(1) No acceptance by or on behalf of the Government of any land revenue nor any permission to occupy in expectation of registration of title nor any omission by the Government to enforce any right of resumption or escheat arising from the failure of an owner to comply with the terms of any cultivation clause or other condition of title shall be held to have operated or to operate as a waiver by the Government of any right of forfeiture or resumption or escheat accruing by reason of any breach of or default in the observance of any term or condition expressed or implied to which such title or permission may be subject.

(2) This section shall apply to all titles whether issued prior to or after the date of this ordinance.




S.36 Abandoned land

(1) When any land or portion of any land held under this ordinance shall appear to the Collector to have been abandoned by the owner thereof for three years or upwards notwithstanding that rent may have been paid during the whole or any part of such period, the Collector with the sanction of the Minister may declare, by a notice substantially in the form of Schedule V published three times at least in the Gazette, served, if possible, upon the owner and posted on the land or in places of public resort in the district, that if the cultivation or occupation of such land or such portion thereof as may be specified is not resumed within six months, he will re-enter upon the land on behalf of the Government.

(2) At the expiration of the period so allowed the Collector shall make a report to the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of the proceedings taken by him, which report shall contain a description of the land, together with th


S.36A Reversion where owner is absent from the State

(1) When it shall appear to the Collector that the owner of any land has left the State and for a period of ten years has been absent continuously from the State and has failed to appoint an Attorney or an agent resident in the State in relation to the said land, the Collector with the sanction of the Minister may, notwithstanding that rent may have been paid during the whole or any part of such period, declare by a notice published in the Gazette to that effect and that if the owner shall fail to disprove such facts within three months, he will re-enter upon the land on behalf of the Government.

(2) If at the end of the three months from the date of the publication of the Gazette, the fact that the owner has left the State and has been absent from the State continuously for a period of ten years without appointing an Attorney or agent resident in the State in relation to the said land shall not be disproved, the Collector shall present to the Registrar a memorand


S.37 Reversion where no representative

(1) If the Collector shall at any time have reason to believe that there is no owner of any land surviving, he shall present to the Registrar a memorandum to that effect, and the Registrar shall thereupon register it as prescribed in Part V.

(2) Within three months from the date of such memorandum the Collector shall, by a notice in the form of Schedule VI to be published in four ordinary issues of the Gazette and posted, if practicable, upon the land, declare that he has reason to believe that there is no owner surviving and that if, by a date to be specified in the notice, the fact that there is no owner surviving shall not have been disproved, or no proceedings shall have been instituted for the appointment of a legal representative or successor to the late owner, the land shall be resumed by the Government.

(3) The date to be specified in the notice shall be five years from the date of the memorandum mentioned in subsection (1).

(4) If upon the s


S.38 Surrender of title

Land held under a title issued either before or after the commencement of this ordinance may at any time be surrendered to the Government in accordance with the procedure laid down in section 112 and the document of title delivered up, and upon registration of such surrender as hereinafter provided, the land shall vest in the Government free of all encumbrances:

Provided that;

(a) notice of the intention to surrender shall have been served upon all persons having interests registered against the title, and they have had an opportunity of showing cause to the Collector why such surrender should not be accepted; and

(b) the Collector may refuse to accept a surrender unless all arrears of rent or other land revenue that may be due from such land shall have been paid.




S.39 Combination of titles

In the absence of an express condition to the contrary in the document of title any owner of two or more contiguous lots may, subject to the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to Town Planning or governing the size, shape or area of land to be held under any single title, combine the same in one lot, and the title to such one lot shall be subject to such of the conditions set forth in the documents of title to the several lots as the Director may select.




S.40 Sub-division of titles

(1) If the owner of any land comprised in any document of title is desirous of dividing or partitioning such land, application shall be made to the Collector to accept a surrender of such title and to issue new leases or make new entries in the Register relating to the land comprised therein in such lots as the owner may desire. The Collector shall thereupon in lieu thereof and subject to the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to Town Planning or governing the size, shape or area of land to be held under any single title, issue such titles as may be required, on the terms of the original title:

Provided that all arrears of rent and charges, if any, due under the original title shall have been satisfied:

And provided further that the Director shall impose additional premium and the rent payable to the Government in respect of each of such sub-divisions and shall enter such amounts on the new titles and also impose special cond


S.41 Appeal

(1) An appeal shall lie from any order or decision of a Collector, Surveyor or Registrar given under this ordinance to the Director, and again from any order or decision of the Director, whether original or an appeal, to the Court:

Provided that no appeal shall be admitted;

(a) after the expiration of thirty days from the date of the order or decision appealed against;

(b) until the prescribed fees shall have been paid;

(c) if it is expressly provided that the order or decision shall be final or if any other form of appeal is prescribed;

(d) from any decision of the Director under section 9 of this ordinance.

Jurisdiction of Courts barred

(2) Except as herein expressly provided, no Court shall exercise jurisdiction as to any claim or question in respect of which jurisdiction is given by this ordinance and may of his own motion revise or overrule the decision on given, or make such order thereon as may appear just. An appeal shall lie from any order given on such revision in accordance with the provisions of section 41:

Provided that no order or decision shall be made to the prejudice of any person unless such person has been given an opportunity of being heard.




S.43 Enforcement of orders

Any order or decision of a Collector or of the Director given under this ordinance may be enforced as regards monetary payments by the procedure prescribed in Part VII:

Provided that no order for the sale of land shall be made during the pendency of any appeal that may have been instituted under section 41. Orders affecting land shall be registered as required by Part V and may be enforced under section 121.




S.44 Powers to enforce attendance of witnesses

(1) For the purpose of any enquiry made by a Collector or by the Director, the Collector or Director, as the case may be, may require by a summons under his hand any person being within Sabah to attend before him and, if necessary, to produce all documents in his possession relating to any right to or interest in such land.

(2) The Collector or Director, as the case may be, may also examine upon oath, or solemn affirmation having the force of an oath, any person so summoned touching any right to such land or interest in the same.

(3) Every person so summoned or examined shall be legally bound to attend as required by the summons, and to produce all such documents as aforesaid, and to answer on oath or affirmation any lawful question put to him.




S.45 Copies of documents to be evidence

A copy of any application, letter, document or instrument of any kind whatsoever relating to any purchase, reservation, grant or title in respect of land, certified as correct by the officer having the custody thereof, shall be admissible in evidence in every case in which the original would be admissible.




S.46 Yang di-Pertua Negeri may make rules

The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may;

(a) make rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance for more effectually carrying out the land administration of Sabah, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may by such rules make provision with respect to;

(i) the mode and manner in which applications for State land are made;

(ii) the issue of licences for the purposes of removal of articles specified in sections 23, 24 and 25 and the regulation and control of the operations under such licences;

(iii) the control and management of land reserved under sections 28 and 78;

(iv) the procedure for the sale of land by public auction required by or under the ordinance to be sold;

(v) the payments to be made under licences and permits issued under the ordinance;

(vi) the fee


S.47 Appointment of officers

(1) The Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, appoint, and when appointed cancel the appointment of, a Director of Lands and Surveys, a Deputy Director of Lands and Surveys and such Land Officers, Collectors, Assistant Collectors, Surveyors, Registrars and other officers, for such districts and for such duties as he may consider necessary for carrying out the provisions of this ordinance and he may by such notification or by subsequent notification declare that any duty imposed upon or power vested in any appointee under this subsection may or shall be carried out by or exercised by any other such appointee.

(2) In any district in which there may be one or more Assistant Collectors as well as a Collector, every Assistant Collector shall exercise his powers and perform his duties in conformity with the directions of the Collector.

(3) In addition to the powers conferred upon him by this

S.48 Form of lease

Subject to any special exceptions made by the Minister in particular cases every lease under this part shall be substantially in the form of Schedule VIII, and shall be for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS

Applicability of Section 48

Refer toChin Kim Phin v. Director Of Lands & Surveys, Sabah & Anor (Encl 1) [2020] MLRHU 339where the High Court stated that:

"The provision ins 48of the Landordinance(Sabah) (Cap 68)cannot be fairly and naturally construed or read as to apply to s 39of the Landordinance(Sabah) (Cap 68) concerning combined or amalgamated titleand/or to s 40of the Land

S.49 Collector may authorise occupation pending survey

(1) If the immediate survey of any land is impracticable, the Collector may authorise the use and occupation of such land and shall thereupon issue a Provisional Lease in the form of Schedule IX subject to the conditions on which a lease would ordinarily issue.

(2) Such document shall specify the extent and describe as nearly as may be the situation of the land to which it relates, and after the survey of the land so occupied it shall be called in and cancelled and a lease issued in lieu thereof.




S.50 Terms for Country Land

Subject to any general or special direction by the Minister the premium, rent and other terms upon which a lease may be granted under this Part shall be subject to the approval of the Director.




S.51 Premium

(1) In cases where premium is required, the situation and quality of the land and the value of the timber thereon will form the basis for calculating the amount of premium chargeable.

Payment of premium

(2) The premium must be paid on or before the issue of the title:

Provided that the Collector may, in his discretion, allow premium to be paid in instalments over a period not exceeding six years. If default is made in the due payment of any premium the land shall revert to the Government and any monies paid on account thereof shall be forfeited.




S.52 Sale by auction in certain cases

Country lands may also be disposed of in lots by public auction, the upset price, rent and other particulars being clearly stated in the conditions of sale.




S.53 Cultivation

(1) In all cases a bona fide commencement to bring land under cultivation must be made within six months from the date of the commencement of the title.

(2) In cases where the area does not exceed 40 hectares the whole area shall be brought into cultivation within three years.

(3) In cases where the area exceeds 40 hectares but does not exceed 250 hectares one-fifth of the total area shall be brought into cultivation during each successive year.

(4) In the case of lands exceeding 250 hectares the lease shall be granted in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, but with such conditions as to cultivation, rent, forfeiture or otherwise as may be imposed in each case by the Minister:

Provided that in the event of the sub-division of any such lease, and the sale or transfer of any part thereof, every part so sold or transferred shall be subject to such rent per acre and to such other conditio


S.54 Land to be used for agricultural purposes only

Land which has been alienated under this Part or under similar part of any previous Land ordinance shall not be used for other than agricultural purposes except with permission of the Minister who may impose additional premium or rent or add or substitute such terms and conditions as he may think fit.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS

Power of Minister

Refer toChin Kim Phin v. Director Of Lands & Surveys, Sabah & Anor (Encl 1) [2020] MLRHU 339where the High Court stated that:

"Though on the face ofs 54 of the Land ordinance (Sabah)(Cap 68), it seems to give the Minister wide power to "add or substitute such terms and conditions as he may think fit" in permitting for such land to be used for purpose other than agricultural purposes.

..


S.54A Implied conditions affecting land alienated for agricultural purposes

(1) Whenever any land is alienated for agricultural purposes, there shall be implied the condition that no building shall be erected on the land other than a building or buildings to be used for one or more purposes specified or referred to in subsection (2).

(2) The purposes referred to in subsection (1) are the following:

(a) one dwelling house for the owner of the land or any other person lawfully in occupation thereof;

(b) such other buildings as may be necessary for accommodating any domestic servants of the owner of the land or of any other person lawfully in occupation thereof;

(c) such other buildings as may be necessary for accommodating persons lawfully employed on the land in connection with the use of the land for agricultural purposes as may be approved by the Director.




S.55 Town Land to be alienated by auction

No Town Land shall be alienated otherwise than to the highest bidder at a public auction or auction restricted to persons declared to be competent to bid thereat:

Provided that the Cabinet may in any particular case authorise the alienation of such land without auction and in such case the terms, conditions, covenants and restrictions applicable to such alienation shall be as the Cabinet may direct.




S.56 Terms and conditions of auction and land tenure to be approved by Minister.

(1) No Town Land shall be auctioned unless and until;

(a) the land shall have been delineated on a survey plan;

(b) the upset price (if any) of the land to be auctioned and the terms and conditions of the auction thereof shall have been approved by the Minister;

(c) the terms, conditions, covenants and restrictions applicable to such alienation shall have been approved by the Minister; and (d) a notice of the intended auction and of the terms and conditions thereof shall have been published in the Gazette not less than one month prior to such auction.

(2) No Government officer having any duty to perform in connection with any auction of land under this Part shall either directly or indirectly bid for, acquire or attempt to acquire any interest in the land offered at such auction without the permission of the State Secretary first had and obtained.




S.57 Form and term of lease

Subject to any special exception made by the Minister in the form or term of any particular lease, every title to Town Land alienated under this Part shall be a Town Lease substantially in the form of Schedule VIII and shall be for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years.




S.58 (Repealed)




S.59 Use of land

Where any Town Land has been classified under the provisions of any former written law or made the subject of a restrictive covenant or condition as to its use, such land shall not be used for any other purpose and any use of Town Land otherwise than in accordance with such classification, covenant or condition shall be deemed to be a breach of condition as referred to in section 34.




S.60 (Repealed)




S.61 (Repealed)




S.62 (Repealed)




S.63 (Repealed)




S.64 Application limited to lands held by natives

(1) This Part shall apply only to lands held by natives, and no non-native may purchase any land held under this Part, unless in accordance with the terms of section 17, or acquire any interest therein by way of charge or otherwise.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, any power of attorney whereof the donee or any donee is a non-native, if it relates to any land held under this Part, shall be null and void.

(3) In respect of any country land held in Labuan under any title by any native prior to the 31st day of December, 1952, such native may, at any time not later than the 1st day of February, 1954, apply in writing to the Director through the Collector for the district of Labuan

Title for land held on customary tenure

(2) Any native who holds his land under customary tenure without documentary title may be required by order of the Collector in writing to take out title by entry in the


S.65 Customary tenure

"Customary tenure" means the lawful possession of land by natives either by continuous occupation or cultivation for three or more consecutive years or by title under this Part or under the Poll Tax ordinance[Cap. 102.], or Part IV of the Land ordinance, 1913[N.B. Ord. No. 3 of 1913].




S.66 Rights and obligations of customary tenure

Customary tenure shall confer upon the holder thereunder a permanent heritable and transferable right of use and occupancy in his land subject only, in addition to the general provisions of Part I of this ordinance to-

(a) the duty of preparing his padi fields and planting padi, cleaning, working and cultivating his garden, orchards or sago lands in such manner as may be prescribed;

(b) the liability to give his labour free, when required by the Collector or Native Chief or Headman, for the performance of such works and duties for the common benefit of himself and neighbouring land holders as may be prescribed.




S.67 Native Title Register

(1) A Register of Native Titles shall be kept in each district in the form of Schedule X.

Title for land held on customary tenure

(2) Any native who holds his land under customary tenure without documentary title may be required by order of the Collector in writing to take out title by entry in the Native Title Register and to pay the prescribed fees for such title.

Extract from Register

(3) A certified copy of the entry in the Native Title Register may be issued to the owner and shall be signed by the Collector and shall have marked thereon a plan of the land to which it refers.




S.68 Field Register

(1) If the immediate demarcation of any land is impracticable the Collector shall authorise by entry in the Field Register in the form of Schedule XI the use and occupancy of such land subject to the conditions which attach to title by entry in the Native Title Register, and may issue to the owner a copy of the entry in the Field Register.

(2) Such entry shall specify the extent and describe as nearly as may be the situation of the land to which it relates and, after the demarcation of the land so occupied, it shall be cancelled and an entry in the Native Title Register made in lieu thereof.




S.69 Claims to land based upon customary tenure

Claims to land based upon customary tenure shall be decided by the Collector acting under section 82 subject to the appeal provided for in sections 41 and 84.




S.70 Applications for State land

(1) Applications for State land under this Part shall be made to the Collector, and shall be dealt with without delay and as far as possible in the order in which they are received.

Use of land for agricultural purposes

(2) Land which is to be or has been alienated under this Part or under similar part of any previous Land ordinance shall not be used for other than agricultural purposes except with the permission of the Minister who may impose additional premium or rent or add or substitute such terms and conditions as he may think fit.

Limit of area

(3) No State land shall be alienated under this Part for an area which shall exceed twenty hectares:

Provided that the Director may, with the consent of the Secretary of Natural Resources, alienate any area exceeding twenty hectares upon such special terms and conditions a


S.71 Rent payable

Land alienated under this Part shall be free of rent for the first six years and shall thereafter be liable to an annual rent at the appropriate rate set forth in Schedule XIA. No rent shall be payable on native reserves declared under section 78 or 79:

Provided that in respect of any land alienated under this Part, other than land referred to in subsection (3) of section 64;

(a) held in the ownership of any one native the rent to be charged in respect of any area in excess of twenty hectares shall be such amount as the Director may fix;

(b) which has previously been alienated and improved and subsequently surrendered or resumed by Government, re-alienation of such land shall be subject to such premium as the Director may fix having regard to the improvements on the land and to such rent as the Director may fix.




S.72 Rents due on 1st January

(1) All rents fall due on the first day of January in each year but no Notice of Demand shall be issued under the provisions of Part VII in respect of any rent until the first day of May of the year the rent falls due.

Part VII to apply

(2) Subject to the terms of this section the provisions to Part VII for the collection of land revenue shall apply of land held under this Part. Mutations of title to be registered 73. All mutations of title and dealings therewith shall be registered by the Collector in accordance with the procedure laid down in Part V except as herein otherwise directed, on payment of the fees prescribed for registration under this Part.




S.73 Omitted

Omitted.




S.74 Succession to land

On the death of a native land holder the question of succession to his land held under this Part shall be decided in accordance with the provisions of the Administration of Native and Small Estates ordinance [Cap. 1.].




S.75 Exchange of title

The owner of a native title may with the consent of the Director exchange his title for a lease under Part II or Part III on payment of the fees prescribed for leases under such Part, and of such premium and rent as may be imposed in each case.




S.76 Communal titles

In cases where any State land planned by the Government for the natives of Sabah or a claim to customary tenure of land has been established or a claim to native customary rights has been dealt with by a grant of land and such land is to be held or is held for the common use and benefit of natives and is not assigned to any individual as his private property, it shall be lawful for the Minister to sanction a communal native title for such land to be issued in accordance with the relevant provisions of this ordinance in the name of the Collector as trustee for the natives concerned but without power of sale and such communal native title shall be held to be a title under this Part, but shall be subject to such rent as the Minister may order.




S.77 Sub-division of communal title

A communal title may, with the sanction of the Collector, be sub-divided and wholly or in part assigned to individual owners, who shall thereupon receive native titles in their own names. In such cases it shall be lawful for the Collector to sign a transfer on behalf of the community.




S.78 Native Reserves

(1) The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, if he thinks it necessary to protect the present and future interests and well-being of the natives of Sabah or any community thereof, declare any area of State land, the boundaries of which have been surveyed, to be a Native Reserve for any purpose approved by him.

(2) Every such declaration shall;

(a) fully describe the land declared to be a Native Reserve and for this purpose a reference to such land by its Survey Lot number shall be taken and deemed to be a full description thereof;

(b) state the purpose for which land has been reserved;

(c) state the term of and the conditions upon which such reservation has been made; and

(d) be published in two consecutive issues of the Gazette.

(3) The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, if he thinks fit, appoint one or more trustees to control and manage, subject to the directions of either the Secretary of Natural Resources or District Officer as the Yang


S.79 Restriction on alienation in Reserve

(1) No document of title shall be registered in respect of any land lying within a Native Reserve declared under the provisions of this or any previous Land ordinance but the Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, if he deems fit either generally or in any particular case, sanction the alienation to natives by entry in the Register of Native Titles or Field Register of any area of land within a Native Reserve declared under section 78 or under any such previous Land ordinance to be a Native Reserve for the purpose of providing land for future cultivation by natives.

(2) The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, if he deems fit either generally or in any particular case, sanction the alienation to natives in accordance with any of the provisions of this ordinance of any area of land lying within any provisional reservation for native use declared under the provisi


S.80 Proclamation of settlement

The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may by notification in the Gazette and by notices locally promulgated proclaim any area or district in Sabah for settlement under this Part.




S.81 Native claims to be sent to Collector

It shall be obligatory on all natives claiming land within the district or area proclaimed who do not already hold a documentary title therefor, or who claim other native customary rights therein, to state their claims to the Collector or his agent either verbally or in writing within the period stated in the notification, which period shall not be less than four months from the date thereof.




S.82 Collector to register and decide claims

The Collector shall enter in a register all claims submitted within the period assigned in the notification and being guided by the conditions laid down in the definitions of customary tenure and of native customary rights in this ordinance he shall record his decision as to the ownership of the land and the claims to other native customary rights.




S.83 Compensation or resumption by Government

The Collector may if so directed order that any land, the claim to which is admitted by him under the preceding sections, shall be resumed by Government; and in such cases he shall proceed in the manner provided in the Land Acquisition ordinance [Cap. 69.], to determine the amount of compensation to be paid:

Provided that no land held under a documentary title shall be liable to resumption under this section.




S.84 Unclaimed land to become State land

All land which has not been claimed or the claim to which has been rejected shall become absolutely the property of Government:

Provided that if a claim has been rejected by the Collector, the claimant may lodge an appeal to the Director in accordance with the provisions of section 41.




S.85 Compulsory registration of title

The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, in the notification referred to in section 80, order that on completion of the settlement all natives whose claims to land within the area or district proclaimed have been established shall be required to take out titles under this Part and to pay the necessary fees. When the settlement has been completed no later claim to land based upon customary tenure or upon other native customary rights shall be admissible within the area or district settled.




S.86 Powers of Collector

For the purposes of this Part the Collector shall have the powers assigned to Collectors and Surveyors under Part VIII.




S.87 Application of this Part

The provisions of this Part shall unless otherwise expressly provided apply to all dealings after the coming into operation of this ordinance, whether the title concerned was issued prior or subsequent to the coming into operation of this ordinance.




S.88 No title or claim to land valid unless registered

No new title and no dealing with, claim to or interest in any land except land still held under native customary tenure without documentary title shall be valid until it has been registered in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS

Indefeasibility of Title

Refer to Sia Hiong Tee & Ors v. Chong Su Kong & Ors [2015] 3 MLRA 652 where Federal Court states that:

"Section 88 of the SLO does not incorporate the concept of indefeasibility of title as found in s 340 of the NLC.

...Registration under the SLO does not confer indefeasibility of title, deferred or immediate...In the absence of statutory intervention in the like of the proviso to s 340(3), there is no protection afforded to the bona fide purchaser for value without notice.

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S.89 Meaning of term registration

Every title shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions and for the purposes of this ordinance so soon as the same shall have been marked by the Registrar with the folium and volume or number so as to indicate its place in the Register and every dealing shall be so deemed to be registered as soon as a memorial thereof as hereinafter described shall have been entered in the register upon the folium constituted by the existing title on the land affected.




S.90 Titles to be in duplicate

All Leases, Provisional Leases and Temporary Occupation Licences shall be in duplicate, one of which shall be delivered by the Registrar to the lessee and the other retained by him.




S.91 Separate Register to be kept

Separate Registers shall be kept for Leases, Provisional Leases, Native Titles, Field Registers and Temporary Occupation Licences and the Registrar shall record therein all titles and dealings required or entered in the Register.




S.92 Continuation of titles

The Registrar, when in his opinion any register or issue document of title cannot for want of space or other cause conveniently bear any further endorsement, may require the owner to take a fresh issue document of title and may insert additional sheets in the Register document of title, and such fresh issue document of title shall be prepared on the terms of the original title, in the name of the owner for the time being, and shall have endorsed thereon only the memorials of any then existing registered interests. The Collector shall sign and date such endorsements, and such fresh title shall be deemed to be in continuation of and not in substitution for the original title, which shall be surrendered and destroyed.




S.93 Register of Memorials

The Registrar shall keep a book to be called the Register of Memorials in which shall be entered a short description of every memorandum registered. Such book shall be in the form of Schedule XII.




S.94 Notice of all changes to be given to the Collector

(1) Every person acquiring the possession of land or the profits thereof or any interest therein whether as purchaser or on the death of the owner, or as chargee, or otherwise, howsoever, shall give notice of such acquisition, immediately after it has taken place, to the Collector:

Provided that no land shall be transferred or sub-leased except to an individual person or persons, company or body corporate such as is defined in section 10.

(2) The Collector on receiving such notice shall call upon the parties concerned to comply with the requirements of this Part.

(3) Any person neglecting to comply with the requirements of this section within six months from the date of the dealing or transfer or acquisition of interest or omitting without reasonable excuse to comply with any order of the Collector made under subsection (2) within the time stated in such order shall be guilty of an offence against this ordinance and shall be liable to a fine of five


S.95 Place of registration

All dealings shall be registered in the office in which the title concerned is registered.

Presentation




S.96 Presentations

Any person may upon payment of the fees prescribed for registration, deliver or transmit to the Registrar a duly attested memorandum of the dealing to be registered, together with the issue document or documents of title concerned. Such memorandum may be in duplicate or more, if required by the parties concerned.




S.97 Attestation.

(1) The signature of each party to every memorandum and title shall be attested by any officer specially appointed by the Minister or by one of the following persons;

(a) insabah;

a Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, Commissioner for Oaths, an Advocate or the Collector;

(b) in any place within Malaysia other thansabahor in any place within the Commonwealth;

a Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or Commissioner for Oaths;

(c) in any other place;

a Malaysian Consular Officer or a Notary Public:

Provided that in the case of a document executed under seal of a company incorporated or registered under the laws of Malaysia and bearing the signature of the secretary and at least one director of the company, attestation shall not be required.

(2) (Deleted).




S.98 Power of Attorney.

(1) Subject to sub-section (2) of section 64, where any memorandum purports to be signed by any person as attorney for another, such person's power of attorney shall, unless registered under the provisions of any written law providing for such registration, be attested in the manner prescribed in section 97 for the attestation of signatures, and shall be delivered with the memorandum, and it or a copy thereof shall be filed in the land Office with the memorandum to which it refers:

Provided that in the case of a subsequent memorandum executed under the same power of attorney, it shall not be necessary to file another copy, but a reference shall be made on the memorandum to the previous dealing.

(2) The Registrar may require proof to his satisfaction of the continuance in force of any power of attorney and may reject any instrument executed under such power of attorney if such proof is not furnished.




S.99 Rejection of memorandum.

If the Registrar on examination of the document presented shall decide that it is unfit for registration or defective, he may either refuse registration or return the document for the necessary rectification or correction.




S.100 Registration how effected

If the Registration shall decide that the document presented is in order and fit for registration, he shall, in the absence of any lawful prohibition of registration thereof and on receiving payment of the prescribed fees, endorse upon the document of title and upon the issue copy or extract from the Register a brief memorial showing the nature of the dealing and date of registration and also, except in cases of discharge of charge, satisfaction of charge and surrender of title for cancellation, exchange or sub-division, the names of the parties and hour of registration. Every such endorsement shall be made or attested by the Registrar and shall contain a reference to the memorandum on which it is based and its serial number in the Register of Memorials:

Provided that if the document presented is a judgment, order or decree issuing from any Collector or any court in Malaysia, the Registrar may refuse registration until the expiry of the period of appeal against su


S.101 Memorandum to be filed.

An original of every such memorandum shall be filed in the land Office in which registration takes place:

Provided that if the memorandum be a judgment, order or decree issuing from any court in Malaysia, a true copy thereof, certified by the Registrar or other official of the said court, may be accepted in place of an original.




S.102 Return of title.

After registering the dealing as hereinbefore described, the Registrar shall return to the party entitled to the custody thereof the issue document of title or extract from the Register, together with the duplicate, if any, of the memorandum.




S.103 Priority.

All memorials and memoranda shall be numbered serially in order of priority of registration. For purposes of priority the time of presentation shall be taken as the time of registration, without regard to the date of execution of the memorandum, or to any express or implied or constructive notice contained in the document:

Provided that if a memorandum has been returned for correction under section 99 it shall take priority from the time it is presented afresh.




S.104 Form of memorandum.

When any land or interest therein is intended to be transferred or charged or sub-leased, the parties shall execute a memorandum substantially in one of the forms in Schedule XIII, XIV, XV, or XVI, with such variations as the Registrar may permit, which are necessary or desired and not inconsistent with anything in anyordinancefor the time being in force.




S.105 Proviso for sub-leases.

(1) Any sub-lease of land granted for a term not exceeding one year shall be valid without registration:

Provided that no right to purchase the land contained in any such sub-lease shall be valid as against any subsequent purchaser of the land unless such sub-lease be registered:

And provided further that the registered owner shall be liable jointly and severally with the sub-lessee for all rents which shall become payable to the Government during the continuance of the sub-lease.

(2) Any sublease registered under this ordinance may, with the agreement of the person for the time being entitled to the reversion expectant thereon, be surrendered to that person by a memorandum in the form of Schedule XVIIIA and the interest of the sublease shall determine as from the date on which the memorandum is registered:

Provided that a sublease which has been charged shall only be surrendered with the consent thereon in writing of the chargee.

S.106 Undivided share and undivided part.

An undivided share in land may be transferred or charged, but no area not being the whole area of the land comprised in any document of title shall be transferred or charged until the land shall have been sub-divided and fresh documents of title registered for each sub-division.




S.107 Transfer of charged land.

In every dealing by which any land is transferred subject to a charge, there shall be implied the following agreement by the transferee with the transferor and, so long as the transferee shall remain the owner, with the chargee, that is to say, that the transferee will pay such sums as are secured by the charge in accordance with the terms thereof, and will carry out such other conditions as are specified therein:

Provided that unless the memorandum of transfer shall have been signed also by the chargee with an express statement that the transferor is exempt from all further liability in respect of the charge, the chargee shall, in the event of the transferee failing to observe the conditions of the charge, retain the right to recover from the transferor the whole or any part outstanding of the principal and interest secured by the charge.




S.107A Release of one of several titles charged.

(1) When any charge is registered against more than one title any of the titles under the charge may be released from the said charge upon registration of a memorandum substantially in the form of Schedule XVIIA hereto signed by the chargee.

(2) Such memorandum shall be attested and registered in the manner hereinbefore prescribed and the Registrar shall also cause the word "released" to be written or stamped across the memorial relating to such charge in the Register and on the titles released together with the relative memorial number and the date of release and shall also endorse on the relative memorandum of charge a memorial showing the titles released and the amount, if any, repaid.




S.108 Transfer of charge.

Upon the registration of the transfer of a charge, the right to recover the principal and interest secured thereunder shall be transferred so as to vest the same in the transferee.




S.109 Satisfaction of charge how effected.

When any charge has been satisfied, the chargee shall sign a memorandum substantially in the form of Schedule XVII and such memorandum shall be attested and registered in the manner hereinbefore prescribed; the Registrar shall also cause the word "satisfied" to be written or stamped across the memorial relating to such charge in the title and Register, and across the office copy of the memorandum of Charge and shall append his signature thereto.




S.109A Satisfaction of charge with full payment.

Not with standing the provisions of section 109, any chargee may without receiving full satisfaction of payment for his charge, by a memorandum in the form of Schedule XVIIA, discharge the land or sublease to which his charge relates (or, if it relates to more than one title or sublease, all or any of them) from further liability thereunder, and the discharge shall take effect as from the date on which the memorandum is registered.




S.110 Satisfaction in case of absence of chargee from Sabah.

If any person shall be entitled to pay off the charge and the chargee cannot be found within Sabah and there be no person authorised to give a receipt for the money, the Registrar for the district in which the charged land is situated may receive such money with all arrears then due in trust for the person entitled thereto, and may upon being satisfied that the correct amount has been paid make an order discharging such charge which order shall upon registration have the same force and effect as a satisfaction signed by the chargee.




S.111 Sale of land on application by chargee.

If default be made in the payment of the principal sum, interest or periodical payment or any part thereof secured by a charge, or in the observance of any agreement expressed or implied in such charge, it shall be lawful for the Collector, on the application of the chargee and on being satisfied that such default has been made and has continued for the space of one month after the notice has been served by the chargee upon the chargor, in accordance with rules hereunder to order the sale by auction of the whole or any part of the land comprised in the charge.




S.112 Registration of surrender or cancellation of title.

(1) When any title is surrendered for cancellation, exchange or sub-division, the owner shall execute a memorandum substantially in the form of Schedule XVIII which shall be registered in the manner prescribed in this Part.

(2) When any title has been cancelled the fact of such cancellation shall be endorsed upon the Register of Titles, with a reference to the number of the Gazette notification and date, and shall be signed by the Registrar.




S.113 Consent to surrender by chargee or sub-leasee.

No title to charged land shall be so surrendered as aforesaid without the consent thereto in writing of the chargee or chargees, and no surrender of a title whether by operation of law or by act of parties shall effect any registered sub-lease, or any unregistered sub-lease for a term not exceeding one year.




S.114 Registration of title by executors, etc.

(1) An executor or administrator or person claiming by any form of succession may become the registered owner of land by the registration as provided by sections 100 and 101 of the probate or letters of administration granted to him.

(2) A trustee in bankruptcy, or receiver of any insolvent estate, or other person claiming by any order of court or act of law, may, in like manner, become the registered owner of land upon satisfactory proof of his title thereto:

Provided that no land , charge or interest shall vest in the trustee in bankruptcy or receiver of an insolvent estate or any other person above-mentioned until it has become registered in his name pursuant to this provision.

(3) Registration under subsection (1) or (2) of this section shall entitle the person registered to deal with the land comprised in his title as though he were absolute owner, but shall in nowise be held to affect or vary his fiduciary position or his responsibility to the


S.115 Change of name.

Upon presentation of an official certificate or other sufficient proof of the change of name of an owner or chargee, such as by marriage, or by a company under the provisions of the Act or Ordinance under which it is incorporated, the Collector may register a memorial of such change of name.




S.116 Caveat.

(1) A caveat substantially in the form of Schedule XIX may be registered at any time with respect to any lands by any person claiming to be entitled to any interest in such lands, and a memorial of such caveat shall be endorsed on the register in the manner prescribed in section 100:

Provided that it shall not be necessary for the issue copy of the title to be presented for endorsement. No such caveat except a caveat by the Collector shall be in force for a period exceeding three years from the time of registration.

Notice to caveatee (2) Upon the registration of a caveat, the Registrar shall cause a notice of such registration to be served upon the caveatee in the form of Schedule XX.

Effect of caveat (3) So long as any caveat shall remain in force, the Registrar shall not register any memorandum executed by the caveatee unless such memorandum shall be in accordance with the requirements of such caveat.

(3A). Withdrawal of caveat (a) A caveat


S.117 Rectification of title.

If any document of title under which landis claimed by any person contains, in the opinion of the Collector, no means within itself of identifying with reasonable certainty the land to which it relates, or contains errors or omissions either in the original title or in later endorsements, the Collector may, by notice in writing under his hand, require such person to deliver up the same in order that such corrections or additions may be made thereto, whether by the endorsement of a plan thereon or otherwise, and such person shall be bound so to deliver up the same within one month from the date of the service of the notice. When such corrections or additions as aforesaid have been duly made the Collector shall return such document of title to the person entitled to the custody thereof.




S.118 Rectification of register, etc.

(1) Except as is provided by subsections (4) and (5) any person claiming any estate or interest inlandmay at any time apply to the Collector for an order that any register, book or journal kept in hislandOffice under thisordinanceshall be rectified, or that any entry may be made or interpolated in any such register, book or journal, or that any entry therein may be cancelled; and the Collector, after giving such notice of the application and making such enquiry as he may think fit, may either refuse such application, or, if satisfied as to the justice of the case, may make such order in reference thereto as he may think just.

(2) The Assistant Collector and every other person affected by such order of the Collector shall obey the same upon being served with a copy of such order.

(3) If in the opinion of the Collector any alteration or rectification of the Register should be made, his order shall be in the form of Schedule XXIII and shall be registered in th


S.119 Rectification by the Director

It shall be lawful for the Director at any time on this own motion after giving the parties affected an opportunity of being heard to revise or over-rule the decision of the Collector, or to take such proceedings as he may deem fit for the purpose of cancelling, altering, rectifying or otherwise dealing with the registration of any title.




S.120 Loss of title.

(1) If any document of title is lost or destroyed the person lawfully entitled to the custody thereof together with other persons, if any, having knowledge of the circumstances may file in thelandOffice of the district in which thelandis situated an affidavit or statutory declaration containing a full description of such document of title and the circumstances under which it was lost or destroyed.

(2) The Collector shall thereupon cause to be published in the Gazette or locally in the district, for the period of not less than one or more than three months a notice in the form of Schedule XXIV.

(3) If no objection is lodged within the period stated, the Collector shall thereafter, on receipt of the prescribed fees, issue to the person lawfully entitled to the custody thereof a certified copy of the document of title, and such certified copy shall be available for all purposes and uses for which the original title so lost or destroyed would have been availabl


S.121 Delivery of titles for cancellation or endorsement.

(1) When any document of title or extract from the Register is cancelled or is forfeited or expires or is superseded or is required for the purpose of correcting any error or of endorsing any memorial thereon, the Collector may by a notice in the form of Schedule XXV served on the holder thereof require him to deliver up such document, and the holder shall thereupon be legally bound so to deliver it.

Penalty for-non-delivery (2) If default be made in delivering up any document of title required to be delivered up under subsection (1) the Collector may impose a penalty not exceeding one thousand ringgit which penalty shall be recoverable in the manner prescribed in Part VII, and may further with the sanction of the Director declare that such title has been cancelled by the Government, and thereupon all rights and interests thereunder shall cease.

(3) Where a document of title has been cancelled under subsection (2), the Collector may issue a certified copy o


S.122 Inspection of Registers.

The Register of Title, the Register of Memorials and all instruments registered shall be open to public inspection on every working day during office hours, on payment of the prescribed fees, and shall be public documents within the meaning of the Evidence Act, 1950 [Act 56.].




S.123 Official searches.

On receipt of the prescribed fee and a requisition in writing containing full particulars of the search required to be made in any of the Registers or documents referred to in the previous section the Collector or Registrar shall direct a diligent search to be made, and shall give a certificate of the result of such search to the person making the requisition, and every such certificate shall be receivable in evidence.




S.124 Certified copies.

On payment of the prescribed fees, copies or extracts certified by the Collector or Registrar, of or from any document or Register referred to in section 122 shall be given to any person making application for the same.




S.125 Omitted.

Omitted.




S.126 Omitted.

Omitted.




S.127 Omitted.

Omitted.




S.128 Omitted.

Omitted.




S.129 Omitted.

Omitted.




S.130 Application of Part.

The provisions of this Part shall unless otherwise expressly provided apply to all titles whether issued prior to or after the coming into operation of this ordinance.




S.131 Proviso for Native Titles.

Nothing contained in this Part shall be held to vary the special provisions in Part IV with regard to rent due on Native Titles.




S.132 Rents when due.

All rents shall become due on the 1st January in each year except where otherwise specially provided.




S.133 Land revenue how recoverable.

Every sum now due or payable or which shall hereafter become due or payable to the Government on account of land revenue or any amount assessed or ordered to be paid as compensation or fine or otherwise by the Collector or Director in any order under this ordinance , or any other sums which may be expressed in any other ordinance to be recoverable in the manner provided for the recovery of rent or land revenue, may be recovered in the manner hereinafter provided.




S.134 'Arrear' and 'defaulter'.

When any such sum has fallen due and a written notice of demand, in the form of Schedule XXVIII has been served on any one of the persons liable therefor, and a period of fifteen days, or such further time as may have been allowed by the Collector, has elapsed from the date of such service without such sum having been paid or satisfied a surcharge equivalent to 24 per centum of such sum shall be levied and such sum together with the surcharge thereof shall be deemed an "arrear" and every person liable for it shall be a "defaulter";

Provided that the Director, with the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources, may in any particular case for reasons to be endorsed by him on the document concerned exempt any person from payment of the whole or any part of the surcharge thereof.




S.135 Proceedings for recovery of arrear.

With a view to the recovery of an arrear, the Collector may issue an attachment in the form of Schedule XXIX, and may seize, by virtue thereof, any movable property of the defaulter wherever the same may be found, and may also seize any effects or any crops to whom so ever belonging which may be found on the landin respect of which the arrear is due, and may, not less than three days after such seizure, sell the same by public auction:

Provided that in the case of growing crops it shall be lawful for the purchaser to retain possession thereof on the ground until ripe, and thereafter to reap or remove the same.




S.136 Attachment of property.

(1) The attachment may be made by an officer deputed by the Collector for that purpose, who shall issue a notice, in the form of Schedule XXX and shall take an inventory of the property attached. If he is unable to execute the warrant he shall return it to the Collector with an endorsement stating the reason of his failure.

(2) Such officer shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Penal Code [F.M.S. Cap. 45.].

(3) The expense of maintenance or custody of any property or thing seized under this Part shall be part of the costs of the attachment.




S.137 Attachment of property may be dispensed with.

It shall be lawful for the Collector to dispense with the issue of a warrant of attachment under section 135 and to proceed at once against the land in the manner next here in after provided.




S.138 Proceedings against land.

If the arrears and costs are not paid in full within the time required in the notice issued under section 134, or have not been recovered by the sale of any movable property attached under the provisions of section 135 the Collector may proceed against the land in respect of which the arrears and costs are due.




S.139 Notice of sale.

(1) The Collector shall issue a notice of sale substantially in the form of Schedule XXXI and serve it if possible upon the defaulter, stating that after the expiration of three months from the date of the said notice the land will be sold for the recovery of arrears and costs:

Provided that no failure to serve or irregularity in serving any notice of sale under this subsection shall invalidate any sale which has been or which shall be held under the provisions of this Part or give rise to any cause of action against the Government or any officer thereof by reason of such failure or irregularity.

(2) The Collector shall also issue and post at the District land Officer or other public place, and publish in the Gazette, notices of sale substantially in the form of Schedule XXXII specifying the land s in respect of which rent has not been paid and notifying that such land s will be sold for the recovery of arrears and costs at a specified place and date, which


S.140 land to be auctioned.

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, all land s so specified shall at the time and place notified, or on the day to which the Collector may postpone the sale, be put up to public auction by the Collector, and shall be sold to the highest bidder.

(2) No officer employed in the land Office of the district and no officer having any duty to perform in connection with any sale under this Part shall either directly or indirectly bid for, acquire or attempt to acquire any interest in property offered at such sale.




S.141 Power to stop sale.

If any person tenders to the Collector the amount of the arrears and costs at any time previous to the sale, the Collector shall upon receipt of the same desist from all further proceedings in respect thereof.




S.142 Procedure if sufficient bid not made. land to revert to Government.

If at any such sale as aforesaid there shall be no bid at all or no bid sufficient to cover amount due for arrears and costs, the Collector shall record the fact in the auction sale book, and shall register in the manner prescribed in Part V a memorandum in the form of Schedule XXXIII, and upon such registration being made the land shall revert to and be vested in the Government and all right, title and interest of the defaulter therein shall cease.




S.143 Application of proceeds of sale.

The proceeds of any sale under sections 135 and 139 shall be applied in the first place in satisfaction of the arrears and costs, and in the event of there being any surplus remaining, the Collector shall, if he is satisfied as to the right of any person claiming such surplus, pay the amount to such person and, if he is not so satisfied, shall place the amount on deposit in the Treasury to be held in trust for the person who may ultimately succeed in establishing his claim thereto.




S.144 Sale when final.

The Collector shall declare at any sale under section 139 to what bidder, if any, the land has been sold, and his decision on this point shall be final, and the sale shall become final and conclusive on payment of the full amount of the purchase money.




S.145 Default of payment and re-sale.

In default of the payment of purchase money or of any part thereof within the time required, the land shall be put up for re-sale, and the defaulting purchaser shall forfeit any amount already paid.




S.146 Title conferred on purchaser.

On payment of the purchase money and the prescribed fee, the Collector shall deliver to the purchaser an order in the form of Schedule XXXIV, and the purchaser shall thereupon be entitled to have the title to the land so purchased by him duly registered in his name in the manner provided in Part V without the payment of any further fee therefor, and such registration shall have the effect of transferring to and vesting in him such land or interest free of all encumbrances created by or derived from the defaulter or his predecessor in title, except such as are expressly reserved by the Collector at the time of sale.




S.147 Notice to deliver title.

(1) The Collector may, by a notice in the form of Schedule XXV, require the defaulter or any person in possession of any document of title relating to the land which, or a part of which, has been so sold as aforesaid, to deliver to him such document of title, and such defaulter or other person shall be legally bound to comply with such notice.

(2) In any case in which it may be found impossible to recover such document of title, the Collector shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of section 121.




S.148 Penalty for dishonest and fraudulent use of title.

Any person dishonestly and fraudulently using any document of title relating to the land which, or a part of which, has been so sold as aforesaid, in a manner inconsistent with the rights of the purchaser, after service on him of the notice required by the preceding section, shall be deemed to have committed, or to have attempted to commit, the offence defined in section 415 of the Penal Code [F.M.S. Cap. 45.].




S.149 Application to Court against attachment.

If any person whose property, crops or land has been attached or advertised for sale under the provisions of this Part disputes the property of such attachment or sale, he may, in the case of movable property, apply to the Court of the nearest Magistrate and, in the case of immovable property, to the High Court for an order to stay the proceedings, and such Court, after hearing the Collector and making such further enquiry as may be necessary, shall make such order as may seem just.




S.150 Recovery through court.

If after the procedure prescribed by this Part has been followed the arrears together with costs and expenses have not been recovered in full the Collector may recover any balance outstanding by suit in a court of competent jurisdiction.




S.151 Application of Part.

The provisions of this Part shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, apply to all titles whether issued prior to or after the coming into operation of this ordinance.




S.152 General powers under this Part.

Any Collector or Surveyor may, at any reasonable time, enter upon all land s which he is required to survey or settle and upon land s contiguous thereto and may make all enquiries and may fix or place any stone, post, or pillar or other boundary mark in or upon the land and may dig up any ground for the purpose of fixing the same and may cut down and remove any timber or other growth which may obstruct any survey line or any boundary:

Provided that as little damage as possible shall be done to the land or to any property thereon.




S.153 Notice to procure attendance.

(1) The Collector or Surveyor may cause a notice, substantially in the form of Schedule XXXV, to be served on any person owning, occupying, or otherwise interested in any such land and any land abutting thereon or on any person employed on or connected with such land requiring such person to attend before him at a time and place to be stated in the notice for the purpose of pointing out the boundaries of such land or rendering aid in setting up or repairing the boundary marks or of affording assistance or information for the purpose of the survey or settlement.

(2) Every person upon whom such notice may be served shall be legally bound to attend as required by the notice and, so far as he may be able, to do any of the things mentioned therein.




S.154 Clearing of boundary lines.

The Collector or Surveyor may cause a notice, substantially in the form of Schedule XXXVI, to be served on any owner or occupier of or applicant for such land s requiring him to clear any boundary line or to cut any line which may be necessary for the purposes of survey or to provide labour or otherwise assist in such work; and if it is necessary to employ hired labour for such purposes the surveyor may assess and recover from such owner, occupier or applicant the cost of the same.




S.155 Compensation for injury done by clearance.

(1) If it is necessary to remove or destroy any trees, fences, crops or other property of value in order to effect the clearance of any line, the surveyor shall assess the value of the same and shall pay or tender the amount so assessed to the owners thereof.

(2) The assessment shall be made before the property is removed or destroyed.

(3) Any dispute regarding the sufficiency of the amount so paid or tendered shall be referred to the Collector for decision.




S.156 Notice to persons to give information or to produce documents.

(1) The Collector or Surveyor may issue a notice, substantially in the form of Schedule XXXV, calling upon any person who can give any information respecting the boundaries of the land , or in whose possession or power any document relating to such boundaries is alleged to be, to attend before him and give such information or produce such document on a date and at a place to be mentioned in the notice.

(2) Every person on whom such notice is served shall be legally bound to attend and to give such information and produce such document as is required by the notice.




S.157 Boundary marks to be erected.

(1) The Collector or Surveyor may after making due enquiry mark out the boundaries of the land and may, unless permanent boundary marks of a suitable description have already been erected, cause the same to be erected in such manner and number as he may consider sufficient, and may recover the cost thereof from the owner.

(2) No sub-division or combination of existing titles shall be allowed which contravenes the provisions of any approved town plan or any Town Planning or otherordinancefor the time being in force and affecting the land sought to be divided or combined.




S.158 Power to re-erect and repair boundary marks.

Whenever a Collector becomes aware that any boundary mark in his district has been injured, destroyed or removed he may cause the same to be replaced or repaired and may recover the expenses of so doing from the person who is bound to preserve such mark.




S.159 Duties of headmen.

It shall be the duty of every headman to report immediately to the Collector any boundary mark found to be defaced, obliterated, moved, altered, injured, missing or otherwise impaired, destroyed or rendered useless.




S.160 Removal of or interference with survey and land marks.

(1) No land mark, boundary mark, trigonometrical station, semaphore or other survey mark shall be defaced, obliterated, moved, injured or otherwise impaired, destroyed or rendered useless, except by a person duly authorised thereto by the officer having control of such station or mark, and any person acting in contravention of such station or mark, and any person acting in contravention of this section shall be liable, upon conviction by a Magistrate, to the penalty provided by the Penal Code [F.M.S. Cap.45.] and may further be ordered to pay a sum not exceeding ten times the cost of repairing or replacing such station or mark and of making any survey rendered necessary by the act for which such conviction was had, the amount to be recovered by the process provided for the recovery of fines.

(2) If any person shall have occasion to require the temporary or permanent removal or alteration of any such station or mark he shall make an application in writing to that e


S.161 Collector may order boundaries to be defined.

If at any time the owner of any land which shall have been surveyed is called upon to point out or define his boundaries and shall neglect or be unable to do so, it shall be lawful for the Collector after fourteen days notice to survey and define the said boundaries and to recover from the owner of the land the cost of such work as may be thereby entailed:

Provided that such cost shall not exceed the sum as prescribed by rules.




S.162 Duties of Director.

(1) The Director shall cause such computations to be made from the records of the surveying officer as may be necessary, in the opinion of the Minister, to prove the accuracy of the survey of the land and the accurate emplacement thereon of the boundary marks together with the dimensions of the land surveyed, and shall cause such computations or measurements to be made as shall define the geographical position of the land surveyed to the satisfaction of the Minister.

(2) The Director shall cause to be prepared a plan embodying, in such form as the Minister may direct, the measurements and dimensions obtained by the surveying officer.

(3) The Director shall be responsible for the safe keeping of all records of survey.




S.163 Survey fees.

The fees leviable for surveys shall be as prescribed but it shall be lawful for the Director in special cases to charge for surveys by lineal measurement at the special rate prescribed.




S.164 Information of unlawful occupation.

It shall be lawful for a Magistrate, upon the information of the Collector or other public servant charging any person or persons with being in unlawful occupation of State land or land reserved for a public purpose, to issue a summons for the appearance before him of the party or parties so informed against, and of any other person or persons whom it may be necessary or proper to examine as a witness or witnesses on the hearing of any such information.




S.165 Removal of unlawful occupants.

(1) The Magistrate shall proceed in a summary way, in the presence of the parties, or, in case of wilful absence of any person against whom such information shall have been laid, then in his absence, to hear and determine such information; and, on being satisfied of the truth thereof, such Magistrate shall issue his warrant, addressed to any police officer, requiring him forthwith to dispossess and remove such person from such land and on behalf of the Government to take possession of the land , together with all crops growing thereon and all buildings and immovable property upon and affixed thereto and the person to whom such warrant is addressed shall forthwith carry the same into execution.

(2) The said information, summons and warrant may be in the form or to the effect, respectively, of Schedules XXXVII, XXXVIII, and XXXIX.




S.166 Penalties for unlawful occupation.

Any person who shall be found after due warning unlawfully occupying any State land , or land reserved for a public or residential purpose, either by residing or by erecting any house, hut or other building thereon, or by clearing, enclosing or cultivating any part thereof or cutting timber or produce thereon, or who shall directly or indirectly abet the commission of such act or trespass by another person, shall be guilty of an offence under thisordinanceand shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment not exceeding five years, or to both fine and imprisonment.




S.167 Penalty for unlawful grazing.

Any person who shall graze animals on State land or land reserved for a public or residential purpose except under and in accordance with the terms of a permit issued by the Collector shall be guilty of an offence against this ordinance and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit, or in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding six months.




S.168 Penalty for other offences.

Any person not licensed or otherwise authorised in that behalf under section 23, 23A, 24, 25, or 30 who shall cut, dig or take from any land any product in such section mentioned, or extract, remove or transport or sell the same, shall be guilty of an offence against thisordinanceand shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment not exceeding five years, or to both fine and imprisonment.




S.169 Recovery of expenses and revenue.

(1) It shall be lawful for a court of competent jurisdiction before whom any person shall convicted of an offence under this ordinance to order such person to pay to the Government, in addition to any fine which shall have been imposed for such offence;

(a) a sum equivalent to the value of any material under sections 23, 23A, 24 or 25 extracted, removed or transported;

(b) a sum equivalent to the value of any timber or other forest produce cut, collected, converted, felled, removed or transported within or from State land ;

(c) a sum equivalent to the value of any property destroyed or injured;

(d) the cost of repairing any damage in respect of the offence committed;

(e) a sum equivalent to the rent or other payments which would have been payable under this ordinance;

(f) the cost of custody or holding of any thing seized;

(g) the expense of any survey which shall have become necessary for proving any activity contrary to this ordina


S.170 Penalty not otherwise provided.

Any person offending against the provisions of any section of this ordinance or of any rule made thereunder for which no penalty is expressly provided, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit, or in default of the payment thereof to imprisonment not exceeding two years.




S.171 Encroachment on road, etc.

(1) Any person who interferes with or encroaches on any public road, street, highway or waterway by building any structure, or by putting up enclosures or by planting, or by filling up or obstructing any ditch, or by making any drain or water-course, or by breaking up or injuring such road, street, highway or waterway or otherwise shall, unless authorised by the Director, immediately abate and remove such interference or encroachment on the written order of the Collector, and pay such damages and expenses of such abatement as the Collector shall order.




S.171A Penalties for breach of provision, term or condition, etc.

(1) When the alienation of State land or state rights in land has been approved or granted subject to such provisions and conditions contained in this ordinance or any previous land ordinance and subject to such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the Director or a Collector to be set out in the title or an agreement, a breach or default in the observance of any such provisions, terms or conditions shall render the owner or prospective owner of such land or rights in land liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

(2) This section shall apply to all titles or agreements whether issued or entered into by the Director or a Collector prior to or after the date of this ordinance.




S.171B (Deleted).




S.171C Compounding of offences.

(1) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director may, with the general or special approval of the Minister, compound any offence under this ordinance or rules made thereunder by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence upon payment to the Government of such amount not exceeding the maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in the offer.

(2) (Deleted) (3) An offer under subsection (1) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed but before any prosecution for it has been instituted, and where the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer or within such extended period as may be granted by the Director, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time thereafter against the person to whom the offer was made.

(4) Where the amount specified in the offer is paid up within the time specified in the offer or within such extended period as may be granted by


S.172 Repeal

The Labuan ordinance of the Straits Settlements [S.S. Cap. 6.] and all rules, regulations, orders, appointments, notifications and forms made, issued and prescribed thereunder are hereby repealed, revoked and cancelled:

Provided that for the purposes of the Reconstitution of land Office Records (Labuan) ordinance [Cap. 119.], and for no other purpose, such ordinance, rules, regulations, orders, appointments, notifications and forms shall be deemed to continue in operation until such date as the Yang di-Pertua Negeri may appoint.




S.173 Powers of entry, inspection, seizure and arrest.

(1) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer may, without warrant;

(a) arrest any person who he has reason to believe is about to commit or has committed and offence under this ordinance;

(b) enter, search and inspect any land , premises, place, vehicle, tractor, boat, agricultural implement, conveyance or other things whatsoever which he has reason to believe has been used in the commission of an offence under this ordinance;

(c) inspect any land title, licence, permit, record, certificate or any other documents which he has reason to believe has been used in the commission of an offence under this ordinance, and make copies of the same;

(d) take photographs, video or audio recordings or make sketches of the premises or any thing on the premises which he has reason to believe has been used in the commission of an offence under this ordinance;

(e) secure the land , premises, place or conveyance which he has reas


S.174 List of things seized.

(1) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer who seizes any thing or document under this ordinance shall prepare a list of things seized and forthwith sign the list of things seized.

(2) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer shall request the owner, his agent or servant from whom the thing or documents were seized to acknowledge the list of things seized.

(3) Except where the seizure is made in the presence of the owner, his agent or servant, as the case may be, the Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer shall whenever possible post a list of things seized conspicuously at the place or premises.




S.175 General powers to investigate.

(1) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director may without the order of the Public Prosecutor exercise all or any of the special powers in relation to police investigations given by the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593.] in any seizable offence under this ordinance.

(2) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director may in any non-seizable offence under this ordinance exercise the special powers in relation to police investigations given by the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593.] after obtaining an order to investigate from the Public Prosecutor.




S.176 Disposal of perishable things seized.

(1) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer may dispose in a manner he deems proper any thing seized if such thing is subject to speedy and rapid natural decay or deterioration.

(2) The Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer shall keep any proceeds of sale under subsection (1) in a Government trust funds until a court of competent jurisdiction disposes of the case.

(3) The Government shall not be liable to any person for any deterioration, however caused, in the quality of anything of perishable nature seized under this ordinance.




S.178 Temporary release of things seized.

(1) Where anything has been seized under this ordinance, the Director may temporarily return the thing seized to the owner thereof or to the person from whose possession, custody or control it was seized, subject to such terms and conditions as the Director may impose and subject, in any case, to sufficient security being furnished to the satisfaction of the Director that the things seized shall be surrendered to him on demand and that the said terms and conditions, if any, shall be complied with.

(2) Any person who;

(a) fails to surrender on demand to the Director the things seized temporarily returned to him under subsection (1); or

(b) fails to comply with or contravenes any of the terms or conditions imposed under subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.




S.179 Costs of holding things seized.

The costs of holding the seized item pending completion of investigation or pending disposal of the case shall be borne by the owner and shall be a debt owed to the Government.




S.180 Forfeiture and disposal of things seized.

(1) Where any person is found guilty of an offence under this ordinance, a court of competent jurisdiction shall, in addition to any other penalty that may be imposed;

(a) order that the things used in the commission of such offence or in relation to which such offence has been committed be forfeited; or

(b) order that any other things whatsoever seized in the commission of such offence or the proceeds of the sale of any thing of perishable nature be forfeited, (2) The Court shall make an order that anything forfeited under subsection (1) be delivered to the Director or any officer authorised by the Director for disposal.




S.181 Offences committed by body corporate.

(1) Where a person charged with an offence under this ordinance is a body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence is a director or officer of the body corporate, may be charged jointly in the same proceedings with the body corporate, and where the body corporate is convicted of the offence charged, every such director or officer shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he took reasonable precautions to prevent its commission.

(2) Any person who would be liable in this ordinance to any penalty for anything done or omitted if the thing had been done or omitted by him personally shall be liable to the same penalty if the thing had been done or omitted by his agent unless he proves that he took reasonable precautions to prevent the doing or omissions of the thing.




S.182 Non-liability of Director and officers.

(1) No suit shall lie against the Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by him in good faith and in the intended exercise of any power conferred or performance of any duty imposed by this ordinance.

(2) No suit shall lie against the Government, the Director or any officer authorised by the Director or any police officer for any damage caused to any thing whatsoever seized under this ordinance in the exercise of his powers and duties.




S.183 Power to prosecute.

Prosecutions in respect of any offence committed under this ordinance may be conducted by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Public Prosecutor.




S.184 Presumption and proof.

Where in a prosecution of any offence under this ordinance, in so far as it may be necessary to established the offence charged, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved;

(a) that any map, plan or chart made by the authority of the Director is so made and accurate; and (b) that any co-ordinates derived from the Global Positioning System surveying made by the authority of the Director are true and accurate.




Sch.1 SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULES I AND II 

(Omitted under the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance and the Interpretation Ordinance)




Sch.2 SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE IIA (Section 9A) No.

Locality Approximate Area in Acre/Hectare(s) Plan No.

1. Kota Kinabalu 3,830 acres (1,550 hectares) 01126813




Sch.3 SCHEDULE 3

SCHEDULE III (Section 12) APPLICATION FOR STATE LAND (Under Section 12 of the Land Ordinance (Cap. 68)




Sch.4 SCHEDULE 4

SCHEDULE IV (Section 18) TEMPORARY OCCUPATION LICENCE No. ............................................................................. District is hereby permitted to occupy for the period from ............................... to................................ the portion of State Land described or as shown on the sketch plan) on the back thereof.

2. This licence does not create a tenancy and, as against the Government, does not give exclusive right to occupation of the land described or shown on the sketch plan on the back hereof. It may be revoked at any time without notice or compensation and is subject to the special conditions endorsed on the back hereof.

3. This licence is not transferable or assignable in any manner whatsoever and must be produced on demand to the Director of Lands and Surveys or any Collector or Assistant Collector of Land Revenue.

SCHEDULE V

(Section 36) 

NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT

To ............................................................ of ................................................... Take notice that whereas you have abandoned the land* described ....................... in ............................. No. .................................. of the .............................. District containing Acres ................................. Roods .................... Perches ................................. and registered in your name, the said land is liable to forfeiture under the provisions of section 36 of the Land Ordinance, and that unless within six months of the date of this notice you are able to show to the satisfaction of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri that you have not abandoned the said land, or unless within the said six months you commence to cultiva


Sch.7 SCHEDULE 7

SCHEDULE VII (Section 37(4)) ORDER FOR RESUMPTION OF LAND Land Enquiry Case.

No.

WHEREAS I have reason to believe that .............................................. the registered owner of ........................................ has died/become extinct and whereas no legal representative of or successor to the said .................................... has been registered, and whereas due notice has been given in four ordinary issues of the Gazette, namely, Gazettes Notification .............................. in the gazette ................................ of ................................... repeated in the Gazettes of ................................ of the intention of Government to resume the land standing in the name of the said ..................................... provided that no proceedings shall have been instituted to establish the claim of any person to act as such legal representative or successor, and whereas no proceedings have been instit


Sch.8 SCHEDULE 8

SCHEDULE VIII (Sections 48 and 57) FORM OF LEASE




Sch.9 SCHEDULE 9

SCHEDULE IX

(Section 49)

PROVISIONAL LEASE






Sch.10 SCHEDULE 10

SCHEDULE X

(Section 67)

REGISTER OF NATIVE TITLES






Sch.11 SCHEDULE 11

SCHEDULE XI

(Section 68)

FIELD REGISTER






Sch.12 SCHEDULE 12

SCHEDULE XIA (Section 71) ANNUAL RENT PAYABLE ON NATIVE LAND




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