Malaysia legislation

Section 20

of *TOWN PLANNERS ACT 1995

Section 20

The Board may issue a permit to a body corporate for it to practise as a Town Planner if—

(a)

the board of directors of the body corporate consists—

(i)

entirely of individual persons who are registered Town Planners;

(ii)

of a majority of individual persons who are registered Town Planners, and other individual persons who are

Professional

Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Land Surveyors or Architects registered under any written law relating to the registration of such professions;

or

(iii)

of a majority of individual persons who are registered Town Planners, and other individual persons belonging to a profession allied to the practice of town planning approved by the Board; and

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(b)

all the shares of the body corporate are either held by the persons mentioned in subparagraph (a)(i), (a)(ii) or

(a)

(iii)

and that the registered Town Planners—

(i)

have a controlling interest; and

(ii)

hold such percentage of the voting shares in the body corporate as may be prescribed by the

Board.

Body corporate practising as Town Planner