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Section 420

Registration of vesting orders

of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)

ActIn forceProvision 370 of 391
Section 420

(1)

Notwithstanding anything in any other written law, no order of the Court vesting any alienated land, or any share or interest therein, in any person or body shall affect the land, share or interest in question until it has been registered pursuant to this section.

(2)

The Court shall, accordingly, cause a copy of any such order to be served on the Registrar or, as the case may be, Land

Administrator forthwith after the making thereof; and the Registrar or Land Administrator, upon receiving any such copy, shall give effect to the order by making a memorial of the vesting on the register document of title to the land to which, or a share or interest in which, the order relates.

(3)

The Registrar or Land Administrator shall sign and seal every memorial made by him pursuant to this section, and, if able to secure the production of the instrument in question, shall make a copy of the memorial on the issue document of title to the said land or, where the order relates to a lease or a charge, on the duplicate thereof.

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National Land Code 585

Provisions of the

National Land Code

Modification

Section 419

In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan—

(1)

in the shoulder note, delete the words “and Land

Administrator”;

(2)

in subsection (1), delete the words “and, subject to subsection (3), any Land Administrator”;

(3)

delete subsection (3).

Section 420

In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan—

(1)

in subsection (2), delete the words “or, as the case may be, Land Administrator” and “or

Land Administrator,”;

(2)

delete the words “or Land Administrator”

wherever they appear.

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(4)

Where the Registrar or Land Administrator takes action under this section in respect of any land or any share or interest therein, he shall cause notice of his action to be served upon any person or body having a claim protected by caveat affecting the land, share or interest.