Section 11
Allotment of land
of Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990
Where there are employees residing on the place of employment, the employer of such employees shall set aside land which has been cleared, for allotment to such employees for cultivation, grazing or partly cultivation and partly grazing:
Provided that an employer is not required to excise any permanent cultivation which has been planted by him at least twelve months previously.
Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing,
Accommodations and Amenities 17
(2)
An employee residing on the place of employment who has been employed for a period of not less than six months by the employer shall be entitled to have allotted to him an area of 250 square metres of the land so set aside.
(3)
If an area of land allotted for cultivation (whether wholly or partly) shall remain unplanted for a period of six months from the date of the allotment, or if an employee uses the area of land allotted to him for a purpose different from that for which it was allotted, or if he does not use it at all for the purpose for which it was allotted the employer may terminate such allotment and thereafter may allot such area of land to another employee.
(4)
In relation to the setting aside of land under this section—
(a)
land allotted to employees shall be situated as near as possible to the houses of the employees; and
(b)
land for grazing shall, except with the permission in writing of a Medical Officer of Health, be situated at a distance of not less than 183 meters from the houses of the employees.
(5)
The Director General may, for sufficient reason, exempt to such extent, as may be stated in such exemption, any employer from compliance with this section on such terms and conditions and for such period as he may deem fit.
(6)
Any employer who contravenes the provisions of this section commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit and to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for every day the offence continues.
(7)
In this section, “place of employment”, in relation to the allotment of land set aside, means an estate or such other place as may be prescribed by the Minister to be a place of employment to which this section applies.
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