Malaysia legislation
Section 7
Section 7
(1)
Any owner or occupier of native rice land who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall, on conviction before a Native Court, be liable to a maximum fine of five hundred ringgit.
Court may allow cultivation by another person.
(2)
When it appears to the Native Court before which any person is convicted under this Ordinance that it is improbable that he will finish planting the land in respect of which he has been convicted within a reasonable time the Native Court may order that such land may be planted by some other specified person who when the crop is harvested shall receive such portion thereof as the Native Court shall decide.
Owner or occupier not to interfere with person granted cultivation rights.