Land Code · s 4

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s 4

All forest, waste, unoccupied or uncultivated land shall be presumed, subject to the establishment of any claim thereto registered in accordance with the provisions of the

Land Code 1907 to be state land and all cultivated lands which have been abandoned or suffered to lie waste shall be deemed to be forest or waste land within the meaning of this section:

Provided that no land to which a claim has been filed in the manner prescribed by the Land Code 1907 shall be alienated by His Majesty in Council in pursuance of section 3 until such claim shall have been determined by competent authority.

1 of 1909 7 of 1948

(Cap. 40

of 1951)

13of 1954 4of 1955 15 of 1958

S.99/59

lOof 1983

Short title and repeal.

1 of 1907

Division of

Brunei into districts 3

Alienation of state land