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Section 240

Obligation to give information to Superintendent

of Land Code, 1958

State OrdinanceIn forceProvision 201 of 209
Section 240

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(1)

Any Superintendent may, for any purpose arising in relation to the enforcement or carrying out of any sub-division, by notice in writing, require the proprietor or occupier of any land or building, or any person receiving, whether for himself or for another, rent out of any such land or building, to state in writing and deliver, or to forward by registered post, to the Superintendent, within a specified time, not less than twenty-eight days after being so required, particulars of the interest or right by virtue of which he owns or occupies such land or building or receives such rent, as the case may be, and the name and address, and the interest or right (so far as known to him), of every person who to his knowledge has any interest in or right over or in respect of such land or building.

(2)

Every person required to make and deliver a statement under this section who wilfully makes any false statement, or fails or refuses to make such a statement, shall be guilty of an offence:

Penalty, a fine of two thousand ringgit.