Section 34
of Land (Group Settlement Areas) Act 1960
Section 34
The State Authority may permit the Development Authority to develop any State land as a group settlement area; and for that purpose the State Authority may make an agreement with the Development Authority relating to the following matters:
(a)
the location and area of such land;
(b)
the division of such land into rural and urban settlement areas;
(c)
the appropriate crop or crops;
(d)
the size of holdings and the number, nature and size of parcels thereof;
(e)
the rate at which amounts due to the State by way of premium, rent and other charges are to be collected as a portion of the consolidated annual charge, and the date from which the collection of such portion shall begin and the period for which it shall continue;
(f)
any other matter falling within this Act by which the interests of the State are affected;
(g)
the terms and conditions upon which the Development
Authority may own or occupy housing sites within any urban settlement area.
*NOTE—Subsection 33(3) of the principal Act is repealed and the provisions of the principal
Act as amended by Act 51 of 1965 shall extend to and have effect in the States of Penang and Malacca—see section 8 of the Land (Group Settlement Areas) (Amendment) Act 1965
[Act 51 of 1965].
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(2)
The following provisions shall attach to any agreement aforesaid:
(a)
that the State Authority shall declare in accordance with this Act the area in question to be a group settlement area to be developed by the Development Authority;
(b)
that upon such declaration being made, the area shall vest in the Development Authority;
(c)
that the State Authority shall upon a request being made in that behalf by the Development Authority declare any part of the area in question to be a rural settlement area and such other part to be an urban settlement area;
(d)
that unless the area aforesaid or any part thereof is by any other agreement sooner re-vested in the State Authority, such area or any part thereof shall re-vest in the State
Authority upon the consolidated annual charge due to the Development Authority in respect of such area or such part ceasing to be payable by the holder.
(3)
The following provisions shall, as respects land so re-vested in the State Authority, have effect:
(a)
as from the date of re-vesting aforesaid this Act shall apply as if the said land were land which is absolutely subject to those provisions;
(b)
notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in this Act, the State Authority may in respect of any co-operative group settlement area referred to in section 35, issue a title to the co-operative society by which such area is developed;
(c)
the State Authority and every person holding any re-vested land aforesaid shall be bound by all acts lawfully done pursuant to the provisions of this Part;
(d)
where the land so re-vested forms only a part of the
Federal Development area, the Development Authority shall until the whole of such area is re-vested continue to collect for the State Authority any portion of the consolidated annual charge due to the State Authority in respect of that part.
Land (Group Settlement Areas)
(4)
For the purpose of carrying out subsection (1), the Development
Authority shall cause the area affected to be surveyed.
Development of group settlement areas by co-operative societies organized by the Development Authority