42. Powers of disposal

Terms defined in s 5

• agriculture

  agriculture

  Defined · s 5

  “agriculture” includes the cultivation of any crop (including trees cultivated for the purpose of their produce), market gardening, the breeding and keeping of honey-bees, livestock and reptiles, and aquaculture;

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• alienate

  alienate

  Defined · s 5

  “alienate” means to dispose of State land in perpetuity or for a term of years, in consideration of the payment of rent, and otherwise in accordance with section 76 or, when used in relation to the period before the commencement of this Act, to dispose of State land in perpetuity or for a term of years under a previous land law (not being a law relating to mining);

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• disposal

  disposal

  Defined · s 5

  “disposal” means any disposal of land made by the State Authority in the exercise of any of the powers conferred by section 42 or of any of the corresponding powers conferred by any previous land law;

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• forest produce

  forest produce

  Defined · s 5

  “forest produce” has the meaning assigned to it by any law for the time being in force in the State relating to forests;

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• grant

  grant

  Defined · s 5

  “grant” means a register document of title in Form 5b (that is to say, in the form appropriate under this Act to land held under Registry title in perpetuity);

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• land

  land

  Defined · s 5

  “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;

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• mining land

  mining land

  Defined · s 5

  “mining land” means any land in respect of which a mining lease or certificate granted or issued under any written law relating to mining is for the time being in force;

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• reserved land

  reserved land

  Defined · s 5

  “reserved land” means land for the time being reserved for a public purpose in accordance with section 62 or any previous land law;

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• rock material

  rock material

  Defined · s 5

  “rock material” means any rock, stone, gravel, common sand, common earth, common laterite, loam, common clay, soil, mud, turf, peat, coral, shell, and any other rock materials within or upon any land, and includes processed materials therefrom, other than minerals defined under any written law relating to mining which is for the time being in force;

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• State Authority

  State Authority

  Defined · s 5

  “State Authority” means the Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri of the State, as the case may be;

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• State land

  State land

  Defined · s 5

  “State land” means all land in the State (including so much of the bed of any river, and of the foreshore and bed of the sea, as is within the territories of the State or the limits of territorial waters) other than— (a) alienated land; (b) reserved land; (c) mining land; (d) any land which, under the provisions of any law relating to forests (whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act), is for the time being reserved forest;

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