National Land Code (Revised - 2020) · Updated to 15 Oct 2020 · Chapter 1 · The registers
160a. Definition of “new district”
Feedback & supportIn this Part “new district” means one of the districts into which the territory of the State has been divided by notification in the Gazette under paragraph 11(a) by the State Authority on or after 1 January 1966.
district
“district” means any area duly constituted as a district under section 11 or, by virtue of section 442, deemed to be a district so constituted;
Powers of Land Administrator of new district in respect of registers 160b. (1) The Land Administrator of a new district shall have jurisdiction over land within the boundaries of the new district.
Land Administrator
“Land Administrator” means a Land Administrator appointed under section 12, and includes an Assistant Land Administrator appointed thereunder; and, in relation to any land, references to the Land Administrator, or any Assistant Land Administrator, having jurisdiction in the district or subdistrict in which the land is situated;
The Land Administrator shall, as soon as possible, make a note in every register document of title of alienated land within the boundaries of the district to the effect that the title shall form part of the registers of titles of the new district for land within a mukim, town or village from the date of the notification in the
land
“land” includes— (a) that surface of the earth and all substances forming that surface; (b) the earth below the surface and all substances therein; (c) all vegetation and other natural products, whether or not requiring the periodical application of labour to their production, and whether on or below the surface; (d) all things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth, whether on or below the surface; and (e) land covered by water;
Gazette under paragraph 11(a).
Such action in relation to the land with subdivided building shall also be made to the subsidiary register.
subdivided building
“subdivided building”, in relation to subdivision of any building under the Strata Titles Act 1985, includes subdivision of building or land;
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Modification
Section 160
In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan, delete the words “or, as the case may be, Land
Administrator”.
Section 160a
In its application to the Federal Territory of
Labuan, substitute for the words “the first day of
January 1966” the words “the commencement of the extended Code”.
Section 160b
In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan—
in subsection (2), substitute for the words
“mukim, town or village” the words “town or country”;
mukim
“mukim” means any area duly constituted as a mukim under section 11 or, by virtue of section 442, deemed to be a mukim so constituted;
in subsection (3), substitute for the words “for the purposes of sections 159 and 160 and they shall be referred to as former registers” the words “for the purpose of section 160 and it shall be referred to as the former register”.
Upon the entry of the note under subsection (2) the document of title shall be deemed to form part of the registers of title of the new district for the purposes of sections 159 and 160 and they shall be referred to as former registers:
entry
“entry”, in relation to any document of title, includes any endorsement, memorial, note or other entry thereon, and any plan attached thereto;
Provided that it shall not be necessary for any amendment to be made to the title number in any former register and the said number shall not be taken into consideration in determining the title serial number of a new document of title for the new district.
document of title
“document of title”, in relation to any alienated land, means both the register document of title and the issue document of title relating thereto, save that, in the case of land held under qualified title in respect of which no application for an issue document of title has been made by the proprietor, it means the register document of title only;
The Land Administrator of the new district shall, as soon as possible, call upon the proprietor of the land affected by the note under subsection (2) to produce the issue document of title for the purpose of entering therein a copy of the said note and, upon completing the entry, shall return the same to the proprietor.
proprietor
“proprietor” means any person or body for the time being registered as the proprietor of any alienated land;
No register document of title and subsidiary register, which contain a note under subsection (2) or (2a), as the case may be, shall be removed from the Registry.
register document of title
“register document of title” means any document registered, or prepared for registration, under this Act and evidencing or, as the case may be, intended to evidence title to land, and any document evidencing title to land registered before the commencement of this Act under the provisions of any previous land law;
Issue of title in continuation 160c. (1) The Land Administrator shall as soon as possible after taking action under subsection 160b(2), cause a title in continuation to be issued in accordance with paragraph 166(1)(j).
In the case of land with subdivided building, the title in continuation shall be issued in respect of every document relating to parcel held under subsidiary title comprised thereto and the
subsidiary title
“subsidiary title” means title issued under this Act to any of the individual parcels within a building which has been subdivided pursuant to the provisions of the repealed Chapter 4 of Part Nine (which Chapter nonetheless, by virtue of, and subject to, subsection 82(2) of the Strata Titles Act 1985, continues to apply to the matters mentioned, and to the extent provided, in that subsection), and includes a strata title as defined in section 4 of that Act;
Land Administrator shall, pursuant to subsection (1), cause the relevant strata register in Form 2 and Form 3 in the First Schedule to the Strata Titles Act 1985 to be re-established.
Form
“Form”, followed by a number and letter, means the form in the First Schedule identified by that number and letter;