National Land Code (Revised - 2020) · Updated to 15 Oct 2020 · Chapter 4 · Conversion of qualified title into final title
200. Applications for approval of surrender of part
Feedback & supportAny application for approval by a proprietor wishing to surrender a part only of the land comprised in his title shall be made in writing to the Land Administrator in Form 12b, and shall be accompanied by—
proprietor
“proprietor” means any person or body for the time being registered as the proprietor of any alienated land;
such fee as may be prescribed;
a plan showing the details of the proposal, together with such number of copies thereof as may be prescribed or, in the absence of any such prescription, as the Land
Administrator may require;
all such written consents to the making of the application as are required under paragraph 196(1)(c); and
subject to subsection (3), the issue document of title to the land.
Upon receiving any such application, the Land Administrator shall endorse, or cause to be endorsed, a note thereof on the register document of title to the land.
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;
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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;
Provisions of the
National Land Code
Modification
Section 200
In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan, in subsection (3), substitute for the words “Land
Office” the word “Registry”.
An application under subsection (1) may be submitted without the issue document of title if that document is in the hands of any person as chargee, or has been deposited with any person as security for a loan; but in any such case, the application shall be accompanied instead by a copy of a request by the proprietor, served on that person under subsection 244(2) or, as the case may be, subsection 281(4), for the production of the document at the
issue document of title
“issue document of title” means any document prepared for issue to the proprietor of any land (whether under this Act or under the provisions of any previous land law), being a copy of, or an extract from, the register document of title relating thereto;
Land Office within fourteen days of the date thereof.
In a case falling within subsection (3), no action shall be taken on the application until the issue document, or a replacement thereof, is in the hands of the Land Administrator; and accordingly, if the document is not produced pursuant to the request referred to in that subsection, or to any notice served under section 15
on default in compliance with the request, title in continuation
(or, where appropriate, a duplicate issue document only) shall be prepared under Chapter 3 of Part Ten as if the circumstances were as specified in paragraph 166(1)(c).