Land Acquisition Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part III · Reference to Court and Procedure Thereon
Section 13
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person interested who has not accepted the award or any person paying the cost of acquisition may by written application to the Land Officer and on payment of the prescribed fee re_quire that the matter be referred by the
person interested
"person interested" includes every person claim-ing an interest in compensation to be paid on account of the acquisition of land under this Act but does not include a tenant by the month or at will;
Land Officer for the' determination of the Court whether his objection be to the measurement of the land, the amount of the con1pensation, the persons to whom it is payable, or the apportionment of the compensation among the persons in-terested.
Land Officer
"Land Officer" means the officer in charge of the Land Office and includes any officer specially appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to perform the functions of a Land Officer under this Act;
The application shall state the grounds on which objection to the award is taken.
Every such application shall be made
if the perso.n making it was present or repre-sented before the Land Officer at the time when he made his award within 6 weeks from the date of the Land Officer's award;
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in other cases within 6 weeks of the receipt of the copy of the award from the Land Officer under section 9 (2) or within 6 months from the date of the Land Officer's award whichever period shall first expire.
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In making the reference the Land Officer shall Land
Officer's state for the information of the Court in writing under his statement to hand _
the Court
the situation and extent of the land with par-ticulars of any trees, buildings or standing crops thereon;
the names of the persons whom he has reason to think interested in such land and the addresses of such persons;
the amount awarded for damages and paid or tendered under sections 4 and 10 or either of them and the amount of compensation awarded under section 8;
if the objection be to the amount of the compensation the grounds on which the amount of compensation was determined.
To the said statement shall be attached a sche-dule giving the particulars of the notices served upon and of the statements in writing made or delivered by the parties interested respectively.
Terms defined in s 2
Land Officer
Defined · s 2"Land Officer" means the officer in charge of the Land Office and includes any officer specially appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to perform the functions of a Land Officer under this Act;
person interested
Defined · s 2"person interested" includes every person claim-ing an interest in compensation to be paid on account of the acquisition of land under this Act but does not include a tenant by the month or at will;
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