Section 13
Delegation of powers of State Authority to State Director, etc.
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
The State Authority may by notification in the Gazette delegate to the State Director, or to the Registrar, or to any Land Administrator or other officer appointed under subsection 12(1), the exercise or performance (subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed in the notification)
of any powers or duties conferred or imposed on the State
Authority by or under this Act:
Provided that—
(i)
this section shall not apply to any power of the State
Authority under this Act to make rules;
(ii)
this section shall not apply to any power of the State
Authority under this Act to dispose of any land—
(a)
within fifty metres of the bank of any such river as may be declared by the State Authority by notification in the Gazette;
(b)
within fifty metres from the edge of any such lake or spring as may be declared by the State
Authority by notification in the Gazette, with the edge of any such lake or spring to be delineated therein; and
(c)
within fifty metres of any shoreline;
(iii)
the giving of a notification under this section with respect to any power or duty shall not prevent the State Authority from itself exercising that power or performing that duty in any case where it appears to the State Authority expedient to do so.
(2)
For the purposes of paragraph (ii) of the proviso to subsection (1), “river” includes a reservoir of water resulting from the damming of a river.
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Provisions of the
National Land Code
Modification
Proviso to subsection 13(1) In its application to the Federal Territory of Putrajaya, insert after paragraph (i) the following paragraph:
“(ia) This section shall not apply to the power of the State Authority under section 11”.
—see P.U. (A) 180/2002