Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act 1988 · Updated to 1 Dec 2011 · Part IV · Arrest, Investigation and Seizure
28. Seizure of immovable property
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Where a police officer of or above the rank of
Assistant Superintendent of Police reasonably suspects any immovable property to be the subject matter of an offence under this Act, or illegal property, it shall be liable to seizure, and such seizure shall be effected—
by the issue of a Notice of Seizure by a police officer of or above the rank of Assistant
Superintendent of Police setting out therein the particulars of the immovable property which is seized insofar as such particulars are within his knowledge, and prohibiting all dealings in such immovable property;
by posting, where practicable, a copy of such
Notice in a conspicuous position on the immovable property; and
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by serving a copy of such Notice on the Land
Administrator or the Registrar of Titles, as the case may be, in Peninsular Malaysia, or on the Registrar of Titles or Collector of Land Revenue, as the case may be, in Sabah, or on the Registrar of Titles or
Director of Lands and Surveys, as the case may be, in Sarawak, of the area in which the immovable property is situated.
The Land Administrator, the Collector of Land
Revenue, the Director of Lands and Surveys, or the Registrar of Titles, as the case may be, referred to in subsection (1)
shall immediately thereupon endorse the terms of the Notice of
Seizure on the document of title in respect of the immovable property in the Register at his office.
Where an endorsement of a Notice of Seizure has been made under subsection (2), the Notice shall have the effect of prohibiting all dealings in respect of the immovable property, and, accordingly, after such endorsement has been made no dealing in respect of the immovable property shall be registered, regardless whether it was effected before or after the issue of such Notice or the making of such endorsement.
Subsection (3) shall not apply to a dealing effected under this Act or by virtue of this Act by a public officer in his capacity as such officer, or otherwise by or on behalf of the
Government of Malaysia, or the Government of a State, or a local authority or other statutory body.
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