Section 30
Revision of rent
⎯(1) Subject to subsection (5), the Director may, with the approval of the Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri, from time to time revise in accordance with the following provisions of this section the rents payable in respect of alienated lands within the State.
(2)
Any revision under this section shall extend to all alienated lands within the State except land of any class or description which the Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri may think fit to exempt therefrom.
(3)
On any revision under this section, the Director may⎯
(a)
increase or reduce the rents of all lands to which the revision extends; and
(b)
make different provision for different classes or descriptions of such lands.
(4)
In the exercise of the powers conferred by this section the
Director shall take no account of increases in land values attributable to improvements.
(5)
Revisions of rent under this section shall be made at such times as the Director may, with the approval of the Majlis Mesyuarat
Kerajaan Negeri, determine, but⎯
(a)
in the case of the first such revision, not so as to have effect earlier than the beginning of the year 1974; and
(b)
in the case of any subsequent revision, not so as to have effect before the expiry of a period of ten years beginning with the most recent date as from which any rents in the State were revised under this section.
[Am. Ord. No. 9/76; Am. Cap. A28, Am. Cap. A136.]
(6)
Whenever a revision is proposed pursuant to this section, the Superintendent shall by notice in the Gazette or by notice to the registered proprietor given not less than six months prior to such 1st of January as from which it is proposed that it shall become effective, give notice of the proposed revision. Any such notice shall specify the revised rent proposed.
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(7)
The acceptance by or on behalf of the Government of any rent payable under a document of title in which the rent is liable for revision or any failure by the Superintendent to give notice of a proposed revision shall not be held to have operated or to operate hereafter as a waiver by the Government of its right to have such rent revised.