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Section 117

of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)

ActIn forceProvision 119 of 391

Section 117

(a)

that it shall be used only for industrial purposes, that is to say, for the purposes of the erection or maintenance of factories, workshops, foundries, warehouses, docks, jetties, railways or other buildings or installations for use for or in connection with one or more of the following purposes:

(i)

manufacture;

(ii)

smelting;

(iii)

the production or distribution of power;

(iv)

the assembling, processing, storage, transport or distribution of goods, or other commodities;

(v)

such other purposes as the State Authority may prescribe for the purposes of this section by rules under section 14;

(b)

that the industry shall commence operations within three years of the relevant date and that every building or installation thereon (whensoever erected or installed)

shall be maintained in repair;

(c)

that no such building or installation shall be demolished, altered or extended without the prior consent in writing of the appropriate authority:

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Provisions of the

National Land Code

Modification

Subparagraph 117(1)(a)(v)

In its application to the Federal Territory of Kuala

Lumpur, the reference to the “State Authority”

shall be construed as reference to the “Minister charged with the responsibility for lands in the

Federal Territory”.

In its application to the Federal Territory of

Putrajaya, reference to “State Authority” shall be construed as reference to “Minister charged with the responsibility for lands in the Federal Territory”.

In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan, references to the “State Authority” shall be construed as references to the “Minister charged with the responsibility for lands in the Federal Territory”.

Provided that the condition specified in paragraph (a) shall not prevent the maintenance or erection on the land of any building used or to be used—

(i)

for the provision of educational, medical, sanitary or other welfare facilities for the proprietor of the land or any other person lawfully in occupation thereof, or for the servants of, or any person employed for industrial purposes by, the proprietor or any other such person;

(ii)

for any purpose which the State Authority may think fit to authorize in the particular circumstances of the case.

(1a)

In subsection (1) “relevant date” means the date on which any part of the land first became subject to the category.

(2)

The conditions specified in subsection (1) shall be implied in the case of any land to the extent only that they are not inconsistent with any express conditions to which the land is for the time being subject.

Agricultural Land Alienated under Qualified Title