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Account B Schemes 1981

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Enacted: 1981
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Cap. 170

ACCOUNT B SCHEME, 1981

Opening note

Preamble

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 10 (1) of the Rubber Industry Replanting Fund Ordinance [Cap. 170.] hereby makes the following scheme for the utilisation of monies in Account B in the fund.

Section 1

The provisions set out herein may be cited as the Rubber Replanting Account B Scheme 1981 and shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of January, 1981.

Section 2

In this Scheme the expression “smallholders” shall mean any person qualified under the provisions of section 10

(1)

(a)

(ii) of the Ordinance.

Section 3

The Chairman of the Board shall, after paying the amount referred to in paragraph 10 of the Rubber Replanting

Account A Schemes to the Account A, pay the balance of the money remaining in the Transit Account to Account B.

Section 4

The Administrators shall establish an Advisory Committee to perform such functions as may be required by this

Scheme or by the Administrators in their discretion. The composition of the said committee shall be in the discretion of the Administrators.

Section 5

The Administrators shall each year call for applications from smallholders for grants for planting or replanting during the following year. Such applications shall be forwarded through the Advisory Committee to the Administrators.

Section 6

The Administrators shall each year, after considering reports and recommendations from the Advisory

Committee, and having regard to the monies and plants available, lay down a planting and replanting programme for the smallholders in the State for the following year.

Section 7

The Administrators shall issue instructions to the Advisory Committee as to the basis for recommendations of applicants for grants, inspection of holdings, recommendations for payments, and give such other directions as they consider necessary for the successful operation of the Scheme.

Section 8

The Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Administrators applications up to the limits of the planting quota for the State and the Administrators upon being satisfied as to the qualifications of the smallholders may accept and register such applicants, hereinafter referred to as “Approved Applicants” for grants subjects to any condition which the

Administrators may impose.

Section 9

All applicants, whether successful or unsuccessful, shall be informed of the decision of the Administrators.

Section 10

Approved applicants shall be instructed to prepare their land for planting or replanting by a date to be fixed for each district by the Administrators and shall be eligible for grants from Account B as follows:-

(1)

In respect of applications for new planting approved after the first day of January, 1981, during the first six years from registration of an approved applicant, a payment not exceeding a total of $900.00 per acre of which

(i)

$340.00 may be paid during the first year;

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(ii)

$125.00 may be paid during each of the second and third years;

(iii)

$110.00 may be paid during each of the fourth and fifth years; and

(iv)

$90.00 may be paid during the sixth year.

(2)

In respect of applications for replanting with rubber approved after the first day of January, 1981, other than applications approved under sub-paragraph (3), during the first six years from the registration of an approved applicant, a payment not exceeding a total of $1,200.00 per acre of which –

(i)

$370.00 may be paid during the first year;

(ii)

$160.00 may be paid during each of the second and third years; and

(iii)

$170.00 may be paid during each of the fourth, fifth and sixth years.

(3)

In respect of applications for replanting with rubber approved after the first day of January, 1981, in accordance with this sub-paragraph –

(i)

during the first six years from registration of an approved applicant a payment not exceeding a total of

$1,600.00 per acre, of which –

(a)

$760.00 may be paid during the first year;

(b)

$225.00 may be paid during each of the second and third years;

(c)

$150.00 may be paid during each of the fourth and fifth years; and

(d)

$90.00 may be paid during the sixth years.

(ii)

applications will only be approved where –

(a)

the applicant’s land forms part of an area of moribund rubber of not less than 100 acres;

(b)

the applicant holds title to the land concerned which shall be not less than one acre and not more than twenty-five acres in extent, and leases it to the Board without payment of rent for a period of six years;

(c)

the applicant agrees the replanting and maintenance of his land shall be undertaken by the Board, and agrees further that nay grant for which he is eligible shall be assigned to the Board to meet the expenses of replanting and maintenance.

(4)

In respect of applications for replanting with other approved crops, approved after the 1st day of January,

1981, a payment not exceeding a total of $900.00 per acre, of which: –

(a)

in the case of replanting with coconut:

(i)

$300 may be paid in the first year after registration;

(ii)

$125 may be paid during each of the second, third, fourth and fifth years; and

(ii)

$100 may be paid during the sixth year.

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(b)

in the case of replanting with cocoa:

(i)

$400 may be paid in the first year after registration;

(ii)

$250 may be paid during the second year;

(iii)

$150 may be paid during the third year; and

(iv)

$100 may be paid during the fourth year.

(c)

in the case of replanting with fruit trees:

(i)

$350 may be paid in the first year after registration;

(ii)

$150 may be paid during each of the second and third years; and

(iii)

$125 may be paid during each of the fourth and fifth years.

(d)

in the case of replanting with padi:

(i)

$400 may be paid in the first year after registration; and

(ii)

$125 may be paid during each of the second, third, fourth and fifth years.

Section 11

(1)

All payments made under paragraph 10 shall only be made –

(i)

in respect of the first year, after felling or destruction of old rubber trees where appropriate, satisfactory preparation of the land and completion of planting in accordance with good agricultural principles and where the stand of budded rubber or of other approved crops has been properly maintained;

(ii)

in respect of the second and subsequent years, if the area has been properly maintained.

(2)

The costs of issues of planting materials and fertilisers and the cost of any other services provided by the

Board during any one year shall be deducted from the payment made in respect of that year.

(3)

For reasons of disease the Administrators may in their discretion defer payments until such time as they think fit.

Section 12

In making any grant under the provisions of paragraph 10, the Administrators shall exercise their discretion both as to the amount of the grant and as to any condition for deferred or conditional payment or payment by instalments, and shall not in any one year exceed such total amount as shall be fixed for such purposes by the

Board. Neither the registration of an Approved Applicant nor any grant made under this Scheme shall create any right.

Section 13

Any Applicant aggrieved by a decision of the Administrators may appeal to the Rubber Fund Board whose decision shall be final.

Section 14

For the purpose of this Scheme the following rubber plants are specified by the Board under the provisions of section 10 (1) (f):-

(1)

(a)

Stumps grafted with the following buds:-

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RRIM (Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia)

600

GT (Glenshell)

P.R. (Proef Station Voor Rubber)

255

P.R. (Proef Station Voor Rubber)

261

P.B. (Prang Besar)

235

P.B. (Prang Besar)

260

P.B. (Prang Besar)

255

P.B. (Prang Besar)

217

(b)

Seedlings from the following seeds:-

Clonal seeds from Rubber Fund Board Isolated Seed Garden, Sungei Damit.

Clonal Seeds

Area for Collection

PIBG-GOUGH GARDEN

4/5/6

Prang Besar

Isolated Rubber Seed Garden in Peninsular Malaysia

PB 5/51

Sapong Estate [57. Ac.

(Gazette Notification No.

175/176 dated 1/3/66)]

PRIM 501, 632

Sapong New Seed Garden

(2)

Such other plants as may from time to time be specified by the Board.

Section 15

The Rubber Replanting Account B Scheme published as Gazette Notification No. S81/55, and the Rubber

Replanting Account B Scheme published as Gazette Notification No. 446/75 are hereby revoked:

Provided that the provisions of the Account A Scheme published as Gazette Notification No. 446/75 as amended by

Gazette Notification No. 661/76 shall continue to apply to grants in respect of applications approved prior to the first day of January, 1981.

Dated at Kota Kinabalu, this 26th day of January, 1981.

YONG SZE KIUN,

Chairman,

Rubber Fund Board.

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