Section 401
Notice to clear boundaries
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
A Survey Officer may cause a notice in Form 29c to be served on any person who is the proprietor or occupier of or an applicant for any land which the officer is required to survey calling upon that person—
(a)
to clear any boundary line of the land; or
(b)
to cut any line which may be necessary for the purposes of the survey.
(2)
Where a person fails to carry out work which he is required to carry out by a notice served on him by a Survey Officer under subsection (1)—
(a)
the officer may himself cause the work to be carried out;
and
(b)
the cost of carrying out the work shall be recoverable from that person as a debt due to the State Authority.
Recovery of cost of boundary marks 402.
The cost of emplacing boundary marks on land which is surveyed for the purposes of this Act shall be defrayed by the proprietor of the land and, if not so defrayed, shall be recoverable from him as a debt due to the State Authority.
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Penalty for interference with boundary marks and survey reference marks 403.
Any person who, without the authority of the Director of Survey and Mapping, wilfully destroys, damages, defaces, moves or otherwise interferes with a boundary mark or a survey reference mark commits an offence and shall, on conviction—
(a)
be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit;
and
(b)
may in addition to or in place of that penalty be ordered to pay to the State Authority in the case of a boundary mark, and to the Survey and Mapping Department in the case of a survey reference mark, a sum (recoverable as a fine) not exceeding five times the cost of repairing or re-emplacing the boundary mark or survey reference mark and of making any survey rendered necessary by the act in respect of which he was convicted.