Malaysia legislation

Section 30

of LAND (GROUP SETTLEMENT AREAS) ACT 1960

Section 30

(2)

Any person who is in unlawful occupation of land within a designated area or a group settlement area shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.

(3)

Without prejudice to any other action which may be taken under this section, the Collector or any police officer may summarily remove from any land in a designated area or a group settlement area any person found to be in unlawful occupation thereof and may enter upon such land and remove or destroy any cultivation or building erected thereon, and where any boundary stone or mark or ditch or other feature marking a boundary line has been removed or displaced may forthwith restore such mark and re-establish the original boundary.

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