Section 59

When any immovable property, not being State or Federal land, is needed to be acquired for the purposes of this Act, such property may be acquired in accordance with any written law relating to the acquisition of land for a public purpose for the time being in force in any part of Malaysia, and any declaration required by any such written law that such land is so needed may be made notwithstanding that compensation is to be paid by the

Authority or a board or corporation, and such declaration shall have effect as if it were a declaration that such land is needed for a public purpose in accordance with such written law:

Provided that no immovable property in the State of Sabah or Sarawak shall be acquired until the concurrence of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah or Sarawak has first been obtained.