Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 · Updated to 2 Mar 2016 · Part VII · Miscellaneous
18. Any housing developer who—
Feedback & supportin contravention of subsection 5(1) engages in, carries out, or undertakes housing development without having been duly licensed under that section;
housing development
“housing development” means to develop or construct or cause to be constructed in any manner whatsoever more than four units of housing accommodation and includes the collection of moneys or the carrying on of any building operations for the purpose of erecting housing accommodation in, on, over or under any land; or the sale of more than four lots of land or building lots with the view of constructing more than four units of housing accommodation;
in contravention of subsection 5(2) assumes or uses in relation to his business or any part of his business the words “housing developer” or any of the derivatives or any other word indicating the carrying on of the business of housing development; or
housing developer
“housing developer” means any person, body of persons, company, firm or society (by whatever name described), who or which engages in or carries on or undertakes or causes to be undertaken a housing development, and in a case where the housing developer is under liquidation, includes a person or body appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be the provisional liquidator or liquidator for the housing developer;
fails to comply with any of the conditions imposed on the licence granted under section 5, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine which shall not be less than two hundred and fifty thousand ringgit but which shall not exceed five hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.
52 Laws of Malaysia ACT 118