Land Code · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 6
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any title to land issued by the authority of the
Government of Brunei prior to the date of the Land Code 1907, the validity of which shall have been proved as pro-vided by section 5 shall be exchanged for a title under this
Code, and such title shall embody all the provisions of the previous title unless the holder of such title shall consent to their variation:
Provided that no such previous title shall be deemed to operate to the prejudice of any person claiming land under the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.
The occupier of any land who shall have proved, to the satisfaction of the officer in charge of the Land Office, that the land occupied by him has been under effective cul-tivation up to the date of the introduction of the Land Code 1907 shall be entitled as against any other claimant to re-ceive a title under this Code in respect of the land proved to have been so occupied and cultivated.
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