UDL3612 Land Law I Trimester 1, 2020/2021

TOPIC 6 TITLES

Titles
s 77(1)

(a) Final Title (b) Qualified Title

- surveyed: s 77(2) Purpose & Effect: s 176(1)
↓ &(2)

s 177(1)
↓

Registry Title (RT) Land Office Title (a) (b)

(LOT) QT QT
s 77(3)(a) s 77(3)(b) corresponding corresponding
to RT to LOT
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Town / Country Any part Country land < 4 Documents: Documents:
village land > 4 of hectares: s 51(2)(c) RDT & IDT RDT & IDT
land hectares foreshore s 177(2) s 177(1)
ss s 51(2)(c) / seabed Subject to proviso (i) ↓ ↓
51(a)&(b) to s 77(3)
& 11
↓ ↓ s 179(2)(c) s 179(3)(c)
↓ ↓
RDT & IDT: s 85(1) RDT & IDT
Prepared by Registrar: s 85(2)(a) prepared by Registrar: Form 11A Form 11B
s 85(2)(b)
↓ ↓
Form of Documents: s 86 Form of Documents: ↓ ↓
↓ s 87
↓
Grant State Lease Mukim Mukim s 178(3):
(in perpetuity) (term of years) Grant (in Lease provisions of ss 89 – 91 shall
perpetuity) (term of apply as they apply to
Form 5B Form 5C years) document of final title
Form 5D
Form 5E

Conversion of QT to FT

s 189: after survey in accordance with s 396, FT can be issued

s 192: RDT & IDT

s 192(4): ss 89-91 shall apply as they apply to FT

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Classification & Use of Land

Classification of Land
Land: s 51(1)
↓
(a) (b)
Land above the shoreline Foreshore & seabed
s 51(2)
↓
(a) (b) (c)
Town land Village land Country land

Classification of Land Use

s 52(1)

Imposition of categories of Land Use (Land alienated after NLC)

s 52(2) s 52(3)
↓ ↓
SA by notification in Gazette specifies area SA determines the category of land use
and prescribes a category of land use which which is to be endorsed on the document of
shall be endorsed on the document of title title upon alienation under subsection (1).
under subsection (1) on alienation.

s 52(1)
↓
Agriculture Building Industry
s 52(1)(b) s 52(1)(b) s 52(1)(b)

Express Implied Express Implied Express Implied

conditions conditions conditions conditions conditions conditions

s 121 s 114 s 122 s 114 s 122 s 114

s 115 s 116 s 117

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Use of Lands Alienated before commencement of NLC

s 110
↓
(a) (b)
Express conditions and RII s 53 applies
endorsed on the document of ↓
title (1) (2) (3)
Subject to Country land or All other land
s 53(1) – subject to express express town / village land
condition condition held under LOT
requires use
Lam Eng Rubber Factory for a Implied condition: Implied condition:
case particular agriculture neither for
purpose agricultural not for
subject to proviso (i) industrial purpose
& (ii)
Subject to proviso (i)
& (ii)

Land Executive Committee of FT v Syarikat

Harper Gilfillan Bhd.

Collector of Land Revenue, FT v Garden City

Development Bhd. (PC)

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Application of Category of Land Use to Land Alienated before commencement of NLC

s 54
↓

Proviso (i) to s 54(1) s 54(1): SA may by notification in Gazette, specify land

alienated before commencement, shall become subject to a
s 124(1)(a) category of land use
Application by RP to SA for ↓
imposition of a category of s 54(2)(a) s 54(2)(b) s 54(2)(c)
land use
agricultural building specific purpose
Syarikat Harper Gilfillan
(FC)

By RP only
s 124(1)
Kok Kon Sang v Siti Zaliha

Conditions
- Rent due paid: second Implied Conditions and Express Conditions: s 84(3)
proviso to s 124(1) ↓
s 54)(3)(a) s 54)(3)(b) s 54)(3)(a)
- Every person / body with
registered interest implied conditions all conditions to express conditions
consented except consent applicable by which the land may have been
dispensed with: first virtue of s 115, was previously directed by SA
proviso to s 124(1) 116 / s 117 subject shall cease under s 123
to have effect,
except those
Provision also for rescission, implied under s
changes of express 114
conditions / RII: s 124(1)(b)
& (c) (implied
conditions
affecting all
Discretion of SA to impose alienated land)
additional conditions: s
124(5)
PTG, WP v Sri Lempah
Enterprise

But no power to request RP

to surrender title in
perpetuity in exchange for 99
years lease (Sri Lempah) or
30-year State lease (Lim Yee
Teck)

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When RII and Conditions be Effective?

From date of alienation of land: s 105(1)

Alienation: ss 78(3), 88(1)&(2)

Dr. Ti Teow Siew

Conditions Restrictions in Interest

Definition: s 103(1) Definition: s 5 – any limitation imposed by

the SA on any powers conferred on RP by
The manner in which the land is to be utilised Part Nine (subdivision, partition and
amalgamation), or his powers of dealings
under Division IV (transfer, lease, charge,
liens, easement).

Breach of conditions – land liable to Dealing inconsistent with RII does not give
forfeiture by SA rise to caveatable interest: Goo Hee Sing v
Will Raja

Such dealings incapable of registration.

If registered, void and defeasible under s
340(2)(c)

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