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Section 170

Form and content of documents in continuation of title to land as a whole

of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)

ActIn forceProvision 164 of 391
Section 170

(1)

For the purpose of the issue of title in continuation under this Chapter to any land as a whole—

(a)

the register document of title to be prepared shall consist—

(i)

in the case of land held under Registry title, of a grant or State lease, according as the land is held in perpetuity or for a term of years;

(ii)

in the case of land held under Land Office title, of a Mukim grant or Mukim lease, according as the land is held in perpetuity or for a term of years; and

(iii)

in the case of any parcel of a building held under subsidiary title, of a document in Form 4 or 4a, as the case may be, in the First Schedule to the

Strata Titles Act 1985; and

(b)

the issue document of title to be prepared shall be in the form appropriate under this Act or the Strata Titles Act 1985, as the case may be, to the register document in question.

(2)

Every such document of title—

(a)

shall be prepared in the name of the person or body last registered as proprietor in the subsisting register document of title;

(b)

shall specify—

(i)

in the case of land held under Registry or Land

Office title, the date on which it was first alienated, the title number originally allotted thereto and (if different) the number of the subsisting register document; and 195

Act 828

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Provisions of the

National Land Code

Modification

Section 170

In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan—

(1)

in paragraph (1)(a)—

(a)

at the end of subparagraph (i), insert the word “and”; and

(b)

delete subparagraph (ii);

(2)

in subsection (2)—

(a)

delete the words “or Land Office” in subparagraph (b)(i); and

(b)

delete the words “is a certificate” in paragraph (c).

(ii)

in the case of any parcel of a building held under subsidiary title, the number of the subsisting register document; and

(c)

shall contain, except in so far as they relate to matters which have ceased to be effective, the like memorials, endorsements and other entries as are contained in the subsisting register document (but, where that document is a certificate of title issued under any previous land law, setting out in full any conditions and restrictions in interest therein referred to).

(3)

In the case where the title in continuation is a land with subdivided building, a note relating to particulars of the title thereby continued shall be endorsed on Forms 2 and 3 and the register document in Form 4 or 4a, as the case may be, in the

First Schedule to the Strata Titles Act 1985.

Continuation of Title on Subdivision, Etc.