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Section 2

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires ―

of Housing Control And Licensing Developers Rules 1980

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Section 2

“advertisement” means any notification or intimation of housing development ―

(a)

published in any newspaper, journal or magazine or in the form of a brochure or in any other form; or

(b)

displayed on any hoarding, boarding, roof, wall, paling, fence, frame, signboard, plate, cloth, bar, pillar, post, wire-casting or other erection, structure or contrivance; or

(c)

conveyed by means of films within the meaning of the Films (Censorship) Act 1952 [Act 35] or by means of broadcast sound receivers or television receivers within the meaning of the Telecommunications (Television Receivers) Regulations 1964 [L.N. 69/64]; or

(d)

conveyed by any other means oral, or written, whether of the same kind or not as set out in paragraphs (a) to (c);

“Appropriate Authority” means any authority for the time being authorised under any written law in force in Sabah to approve building plans and to enforce building by-laws or regulations;

“charge” means charge as defined in section 4 of the Ordinance;

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Housing (Control and Licensing of Developers) Rules 1980

“contract of sale” means a contract between a licensed housing developer and a purchaser for the sale and purchase of housing accommodation including the lands appurtenant to such housing accommodation;

“Director” means the Director of Lands and Surveys appointed under section 47 (1) of the

Ordinance, and includes a Deputy Director of Lands and Surveys appointed thereunder;

“land” means the land on which a housing developer proposes to erect housing accommodation or on which he is erecting housing accommodation including the lands appurtenant to the housing accommodation;

“Ordinance” means the Land Ordinance [Cap. 68];

“portion” means a subdivisional portion of any land comprised in any document of title made under section 40 of the Ordinance;

“proprietor” means any person or body for the time being registered as the proprietor of any alienated land;

“subdivided building” means a subdivided building as defined in section 2 of the Land

(Subsidiary Titles) Enactment 1972 [En. No. 9 of 1972].

Application for a licence under section 5 (1) of the Enactment.