Malaysia legislation
Section 18A
Section 18A
(a)
a Development Area declared under section 11(1) of the Land Custody and Development Authority Ordinance, 1981
[Ord. No. 4/81]; or
(b)
an area designated as a Sarawak Land Development
Area under the Schedule to the Lembaga Kemajuan Tanah
Sarawak (Sarawak Land Development Board) Order, 1972 [Swk.
L.N. 17/72], the Superintendent may issue a lease over such land for a term of not more than sixty years, on such terms and conditions as he may impose, to a body corporate approved by the Minister.
(2)
The Superintendent may amalgamate all land, within a
Development Area referred to in subsection (1), over which natives have acquired ownership, or over such land and any adjoining State land, into one parcel of land, for the purpose of issuing a single document of title to the body corporate approved by the Minister.
(3)
(a)
Upon expiry of the term of the document of title issued to the body corporate under subsection (2), all land over which natives have acquired native customary rights shall revert to them and documents of title shall be issued under section 18(1) to the rightful owners thereof.
(b)
For the purpose of this subsection, the term “rightful owners” shall mean natives who have acquired native customary rights to the land prior to the date of the issue of the document of title under subsection (2), their heirs or personal representatives or any person to whom they had transferred, sold or disposed of or dealt with their rights to the land under paragraph (i) of the proviso in section 5(2).
[Sub. Cap. A166]
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(4)
For the purpose of this section, “body corporate” shall mean a body corporate established under State law or a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1965 [Act 125], and which has been deemed, pursuant to section 9(1)(d), to be a native for the purpose of or relating to a dealing under this Code, in or over Native
Area Land.
[Added Cap. A50.]
Prohibition against the owning of more than *5,000 acres