Malaysia legislation

Section 2

of Housing Development Control And Licensing Rules 2008

Section 2

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires –

(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 or communications; or

(d)

conveyed by other means oral or written and 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 development and building plans, subdivision of

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land, subdivision of buildings, the issue of documents of title and to enforce building by-laws or regulations and includes any company licensed to provide electricity, telephone, sewerage services and other related services;

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

“communication” means any communication, whether between persons and persons, things and things, or persons and things in the form of sound, data, text, visual images, signals or any other form or any combination of those forms, and includes the Internet;

“Enactment” means the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Enactment 1978;

“film” includes –

(a)

a cinematograph film;

(b)

a videotape;

(c)

a compact disc;

(d)

a video compact disc;

(e)

a digital video disc; and

(f)

a record, howsoever made, of a sequence of visual images, which is a record capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture;

“land” means the land on which a licensed housing developer proposes to erect, or on which he is erecting, housing accommodation and includes the land 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;

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

“subdivided building” means a building having two or more storeys which is capable of being subdivided into parcels as defined in section 2 of the Land (Subsidiary Titles)

Enactment 1972.

Application for a licence

Section 2 — Housing Development Control And Licensing Rules 2008