Malaysia legislation
Section 6
of Reconstitution Land Title Registers Completion Ordinance 1956
Section 6
(1)
No action shall be brought against any person for anything done or bona fide intended to be done in the exercise or supposed exercise of the powers given by this
Ordinance –
(a)
without giving to such person one month's previous notice in writing of the intended action, and of the cause thereof;
(b)
after the expiration of three months from the date of the accrual of the cause of action.
(2)
In every action so brought it shall be expressly alleged that the defendant acted maliciously or negligently and without reasonable or probable cause, and if at the trial the plaintiff shall fail to prove such allegation, judgment shall be given for the defendant.
(3)
Though judgment shall be given for the plaintiff in any such action such plaintiff shall not have costs against the defendant unless the Court before which the action is tried shall certify approbation of the action.
FIRST SCHEDULE
COLONY OF NORTH BORNEO
RECONSTITUTION OF LAND TITLE REGISTERS
(COMPLETION) ORDINANCE, 1956
NOTICE
In pursuance of section 2 (1) of the Reconstitution of Land Title Registers
(Completion) Ordinance, 1956, it is hereby notified that the Records of the Land Office contain no titles to the land referred to in the Schedule hereto.
Any person claiming any right, title or interest in the said land is hereby notified that, under the provisions of the Ordinance, unless application to reconstitute the register is
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made under the provisions of the Reconstitution of the Land Title Registers Ordinance
[Cap. 120.] prior to the 31st day of December, 1957, such land will revert and escheat to the Crown
The particulars set out in the Schedule to this notice have been compiled from various sources and are as accurate as possible but there may be errors and there may be other lands which had been alienated before the 15th July, 1946, of which no details are available in the records.
Any person making claim to land, the particulars of which have not been recorded in the Land Registry since the above date, should give written notice of such claim to the Director of Lands and Surveys through the local Collector of Land
Revenue.