Section 9
⎯(1)
Section 8 shall not be deemed to prohibit the acquisition by any non-native of any land to which the provisions of that section apply, or of any rights or interest in or over such land⎯
(a)
under or by virtue of any law for the time being regulating prospecting for minerals, including mineral oils, or the taking of forest produce;
(b)
whenever such non-native has become identified with and subject to any native system of personal law;
(c)
whenever such non-native has been issued with any permit relating to Native Area Land or Native Customary Land, issued under any rules made under section 8A of the former Land
(Classification) Ordinance, 1948 [Ord. No. 19/1948], or issued under rules in that behalf under section 213, to the extent of the rights conferred by such permit;
(d)
where such non-native has been deemed to be a native, by the Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri, by notification in the
Gazette, in respect of any category of dealing over Native Area
Land as stipulated in the notification;
[Sub. Cap. A50.]
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Now see also sections 3 and 111 of the Subordinate Courts Act 1948 (Act 92).
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(e)
whenever such non-native has been issued with any licence under this Code to extract and remove earth, gravel, clay, stone, coral, shell, guano, sand or lime.
[Add. Ord. 18/71.]
(2)
For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to have become identified with and subject to any native system of personal law upon any event upon which any written law provides he shall become so identified and subject or if he is accepted by any native community as being identified with and subject to the system of personal law of such community.