

On 20/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 20/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 02/01/2011.

10.
—(1) When any land alienated or demised by or on behalf of the Crown or the State appears to the Collector of Land Revenue to have been so abandoned for 3 years or upwards, the Collector may, with the sanction of the Minister, declare by notice in the Gazette and by a notice in the English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil languages posted on the land, that, unless within 6 months a claim to the land or to any interest therein, whether by long possession or otherwise, is established to the satisfaction of the Collector, it shall be deemed to have been forfeited to the State.
(2) Unless within the term of 6 months so appointed a claim to the land or any interest therein is established as in the notice provided, the land shall be deemed accordingly to have been forfeited to the State, and any grant or lease affecting the land theretofore executed, and any deed purporting to deal with the same, or any part thereof, shall be void.
(3) Whenever any land is forfeited to the State under this section, a notification to that effect shall be published in the Gazette and shall be posted on the land or at the police station nearest thereto.







