Section 42
State lease
of National Land Code (Penang and Malacca Titles) Act 1963
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Section 42
(1)
Where the document of original title to a holding is a lease for a term of less than nine hundred and ninety-nine years and issued under or prior to the coming into force of the Lands Ordinance a State lease shall be issued in respect of such holding.
(2)
The term of any lease issued under subsection (1) shall commence on the appointed day and shall be equal to the term
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unexpired immediately before that day of the pre-existing Crown or
State lease of the holding.