Section 56

As from the date prescribed in any notification published with respect to any area under section 54, the provisions of that section shall have effect in the area not only with respect to lands alienated before the commencement of this Act but also with respect to lands alienated under this Act pursuant to approvals given before that commencement.

In its application to any land by virtue of this section, paragraph 54(3)(b) shall have effect as if for the words “section 114”

there were substituted the words “section 114 and, where applicable, section 118”.

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Subsection 56(3)

In its application to the Federal Territory of Labuan, substitute for the words “Land Administrator or

Registrar, as the case may be,” the word “Registrar”.

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Where any land approved for alienation before the commencement of this Act has not been alienated by the time that the notification referred to in subsection (1) is published, the

Land Administrator or Registrar, as the case may be, shall, unless the approval has previously lapsed, take action under Chapter 2 of

Part Eleven to prepare, register and issue a document of qualified title to the intended proprietor and subject to subsection (4), the land shall be so alienated before the date prescribed in the notification:

Provided that any fee in respect of the document of qualified title which the intended proprietor (other than the intended proprietor in lawful occupation of land in expectation of title) would be required to pay, shall become payable on alienation and unless sooner paid, shall be added to, and deemed for all the purposes of this Act to form part of, the rent next due in respect of the land.

Before the registration and issue of documents of qualified title under Chapter 2 of Part Eleven, the Land Administrator shall ascertain whether the items of land revenue specified in paragraphs 81(1)(a) to (d) have been paid in respect of the land and, if under that section the approval of the State Authority to the alienation of the land lapses for non-payment of any such sum, the requirement of subsection (3) shall cease to apply thereto.