Section 21
of Highway Authority Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1980
Section 21
The Minister may, from time to time, by notification in the
Gazette transfer or cause to be transferred to the Authority any highway or part thereof which is a Federal road under the
Federal Roads Act 1959 [Act 376] or by virtue of any other written law, and with effect from a date to be specified in the notification such highway or part thereof shall come under the control and management of the Authority.
(1A)
Any highway or part thereof the cost of construction of which was or is defrayed from the Fund shall come under the control and management of the Authority.
(2)
All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments and working arrangements, subsisting immediately before the commencement of this Act, affecting any of the transferred highway shall be of as full
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force and effect against or in favour of the Authority, and enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Federal Government, the
Authority had been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(3)
Following the notification in subsection (1) all land reserved to the Federal Government and where applicable with the consent of the appropriate State Government all land reserved under any written law relating to land, for the purpose of such highway or part thereof which are transferred to the Authority, shall be deemed to be reserved for the purpose of the Authority and every such reserve shall continue subject to the written law relating to land applicable to such reserve.
Withdrawal of highways from the control and management of the