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Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act

Control and licensing of housing developers

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The Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act provides for the control and licensing of housing developers. It also deals with related matters.

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Preliminary

Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged

s 1Citation and commencement

This Act may be cited as the Housing Developers (Control and

Licensing) Act and shall commence on a date to be appointed by the

Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, by notification published in the Gazette.

s 2Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Board” means the Board of Housing Developers established by section 3(1);

“housing accommodation” includes a building or tenement wholly or principally constructed, adapted or intended for human habitation or partly for human habitation and partly as business premises;

“housing developer” means any person who engages in housing development;

“housing development” means —

(a)

the development or construction or the causing to construct in any manner of more than four units of housing accommodation, and includes carrying on of any building operations for the purpose of erecting housing accommodation in, on, over or under any land;

or

(b)

the sale of more than four units of housing lots by the landowner or his nominee with the view of constructing more than

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four units of housing accommodation by the landowner or such nominee;

“housing lot” means any land surveyed and registered under the provisions of the Land Code (Chapter 40) which has a registered special condition of title for residential use;

“licence” means a licence granted under section 9(3);

“licensed housing developer” means a housing developer holding a licence granted under this Act;

“Minister” means the Minister of Development;

“project account” means an account opened and maintained by a licensed housing developer pursuant to section 14;

“register” means the register of licensed housing developers referred to in section 8;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of licensed housing developers referred to in section 7.

Part

Board of Housing Developers

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Licensing of Housing Developers

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General

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