Section 33

Where any person who holds any encumbrance to which the property is subject claims that he holds the encumbrance as a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and that the encumbrance is not otherwise null and void under any provision of this Act, and the Government disputes such claim, the Public Prosecutor may apply to the

High Court to determine the question and the Court shall determine the same after giving an opportunity to be heard to the person holding the encumbrance and hearing the reply of the Public Prosecutor to any representations which may be made before that Court by the person holding the encumbrance.

Where any property is vested in the Government under subsection (1), the vesting shall take effect without any transfer, conveyance, deed or other instrument whatsoever and where any registration of such vesting is required under any law, the authority empowered to effect the registration shall do so in the name of such public officer or such authority, person or body as the Public Prosecutor may specify.

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Where the property vested in the Government under subsection (1) is immovable property, the vesting shall upon production to the

Registrar of

Titles or the

Land

Administrator, as the case may be, in Peninsular Malaysia, or to the Registrar of Titles or the Collector of Land Revenue, as the case may be, in Sabah, or to the Registrar of Titles or the Director of Lands and Surveys, as the case may be, in

Sarawak, of the order of Court forfeiting the immovable property, or in the case of property forfeited under subsection 32(1), of a Certificate of the Public Prosecutor certifying that it has been forfeited thereunder, be registered in the name of the Federal Lands Commissioner.