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*NATIONAL LAND REHABILITATION AND CONSOLIDATION AUTHORITY (SUCCESSION AND DISSOLUTION) ACT 1997 is Malaysia Act, cited as Act 570 1997, currently marked in force and first recorded in 1997.
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This Act may be cited as the National Land Rehabilitation and
Consolidation Authority (Succession and Dissolution) Act 1997.
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Interpretation
―Authority‖ means the Federal Land Consolidation and
Rehabilitation Authority established under the National Land
Rehabilitation and Consolidation Authority (Incorporation) Act 1966 [Act 398];
―Corporation‖ means the Minister of Finance incorporated by the Minister of Finance (Incorporation) Act 1957 [Act 375];
―liabilities‖ means all kinds of liabilities, debts, charges, duties and obligations of every description (whether present or future, actual or contingent, and whether payable or to be observed or performed in Malaysia or elsewhere);
―Minister‖ means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for rural development;
―property‖ includes all property, movable or immovable, and all estates, interests, easements and rights, whether equitable or legal in, to or out of property, chose in action, money and goodwill;
―rights‖ means all rights, powers, privileges and immunities, whether actual, contingent or prospective;
―successor company‖ means the company limited by shares incorporated under the Companies Act 1965 [Act 125], and named by the Minister in the order made under subsection 3(1), to which property, rights and liabilities of the Authority are transferred and vested under that subsection;
―vested‖, in relation to property, includes rights to property which are future or contingent and rights in reversion and remainder;
―vesting date‖ means the date appointed by the Minister under subsection 3(1).
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Vesting
The Minister shall name the successor company in the order made under subsection (1).
Every property vested by virtue of subsection (1) in the successor company shall be so vested in the company for the like title or interest as it was vested or held immediately before the vesting date.
Every chose in action vested by virtue of subsection (1)
in the successor company may, after the vesting date, be sued on, recovered or enforced by the successor company in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the successor company or the Authority to give notice to the person bound by the chose in action of the vesting effected by subsection (1).
in the successor company may, on and after the vesting date, be sued on, recovered or enforced by or against the successor company in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the successor company or the Authority to give notice to the person whose right or liability is affected by the vesting under subsection (1).
Any pending legal proceedings by or against the
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Authority which relate to any property, right or liability transferred to and vested in the successor company by virtue of subsection (1) may, on and after the vesting date, be continued by or against the successor company.
In the case of rights and liabilities arising under any loans which vest in the successor company on the vesting date, the successor company may enter into such arrangements or agreements over such rights and liabilities with the Government or any third party.
On and after the vesting date, any deed, bond, agreement, instrument and working arrangements relating to any property, rights and liabilities transferred to and vested in the successor company under subsection (1) to which the Authority was a party immediately before the vesting date, whether in writing or not, and whether or not of such a nature that rights and liabilities thereunder could be assigned by the Authority, shall have effect as if the company had been a party to the deed, bond, agreement, instrument and working arrangements.
Initial Government holding in the successor company
to any person entitled to the issue of the securities following their initial allotment to the Corporation.
Securities required to be issued in pursuance of this section shall—
be issued or allotted at such times and on such terms as
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the Minister of Finance may direct;
be issued as fully paid and treated for the purposes of the
Companies Act 1965 as if they had been paid up by virtue of the payment to the successor company of their nominal value.
The Minister of Finance may dispose of any securities issued or of any rights to securities initially allotted to the
Corporation in pursuance of this section.
Any dividends or other sums received by the Corporation in right of, on the disposal of or otherwise in connection with, any securities or rights acquired by virtue of this section shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Government investment in securities of the successor company
securities of the successor company or of any subsidiary of the successor company; or
The Minister of Finance may dispose of any securities or rights acquired under this section.
Any expenses incurred by the Corporation in consequence of the provisions of this section shall be treated as investments and be authorized under subparagraph 8(3)(a)(iv) of the Financial
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Procedure Act 1957 [Act 61].
Any dividends or other sums received by the Corporation in right of, on the disposal of or otherwise in connection with, any securities or rights acquired under this section shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Stamp duty shall not be chargeable in respect of any increase in the capital of the successor company which—
is effected by the issue of shares allotted at a time when the successor company was wholly owned by the
Government; and
is certified by the Treasury as having been effected by the issue of shares subscribed for by the Minister of
Finance under paragraph (1)(b).
Exercise of the Minister of Finance’s functions through nominees
securities of the successor company may be assigned under section 4 to any nominee of the Minister of Finance appointed for the purposes of that section or to any person entitled to the issue of the securities following their initial allotment to any such nominee; and
any such nominee appointed for the purposes of section 5 may acquire securities or rights in accordance with that section.
Any person holding any securities or rights as a nominee of the Minister of Finance by virtue of subsection (1) shall hold
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and deal with them on such terms and in such manner as the
Minister of Finance may direct.
Financial structure of the successor company
The statutory reserve may only be applied by the successor company in paying up unissued shares of the company to be allotted to members of the company as fully-paid bonus shares.
For the purposes of any statutory accounts of the successor company—
the vesting effected by virtue of section 3 shall be taken to have been a vesting of all property, rights and liabilities which the Authority was entitled and subject to immediately before the end of the last complete accounting year of the
Authority, ending before the vesting date and to have been effected to the successor company on the vesting date; and
the value of any asset or right or the amount of any liability of the Authority, taken to have been vested in the successor company by virtue of section 3 shall be taken to be the value or, as the case may be, the amount assigned to the asset, right or liability in the statement of accounts prepared by the Authority, in respect of the last complete accounting year of the Authority, ending
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before the vesting date.
For the purposes of any statutory accounts of the successor company, the amount to be included in respect of any item shall be determined as if anything done by the Authority, whether by way of acquiring, revaluing or disposing of any asset or incurring, revaluing or discharging any liability, or by carrying any amount to any provision of reserve, or otherwise, had been done by the successor company.
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4), the amount to be included from time to time in any reserve of the successor company as representing its accumulated realized profits shall be determined as if any profits realized and retained by the
Authority had been realized and retained by the successor company.
References in this section to the statutory accounts of the successor company are references to any accounts prepared by the successor company for the purposes of any provision of the
Companies Act 1965.
For the purposes of this section, ―complete accounting year‖
means an accounting year ending on 31 December or a period to be determined by the Minister of Finance.
Staff
Every person who opts under subsection (1) to serve as an employee of the successor company shall be employed by the successor company on terms and conditions of service not less favourable than the terms and conditions of service to which he was entitled immediately before the vesting date.
ETC.
Power of Minister to appoint date of dissolution
On the date of dissolution, the Authority shall stand dissolved and the National Land Rehabilitation and Consolidation
Authority (Incorporation) Act 1966 (hereinafter referred to as the
―Incorporation Act‖) shall be repealed.
Continuance of laws, etc.
Any references in any written law to the Authority shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the successor company and expressions importing such a reference shall be construed accordingly.
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Upon the dissolution of the Authority, all powers and duties of the Authority under subsection 6(1)
of the
Incorporation Act shall devolve on the successor company.
For the purpose of subsection (3), any modifications specified in subsection 6(2) of the Incorporation Act shall apply to the successor company and any reference to the Authority in that subsection, unless the context otherwise requires, shall be construed as a reference to the successor company and expressions importing such a reference shall be construed accordingly.
Prevention of difficulties or anomalies
In this section, ―modifications‖ includes amendments, additions, deletions, substitutions, adaptations, variations, alterations and non-application of any provision of this Act.
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