(1) This Act may be cited as the Service Lands Act 1963.
(2) This Act shall apply to the States of *Peninsular Malaysia only.
Act 413
Service Lands Act 1963
Akta tanah tentera 1963
An Act to make provision for the ejectment of persons unlawfully occupying any land used or to be used for the purposes of any Federation forces and to incorporate the United Kingdom Services’ Lands Board.
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(1) This section shall apply to lands used or to be used for the purposes of any military, naval or air forces of the Federation.
(2) A Magistrates’ Court, on the information of the Director General of Lands and Mines or a person authorized by him that any person is in unlawful occupation of any land to which this section applies, may issue a summons for the appearance before the court of the person informed against; and on his appearing to the summons or (in default of his appearance thereto) on proof of service of the summons the court may proceed in a summary way to hear and determine the information.
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(3) If on the hearing of the information, the court is satisfied of the truth thereof, the court shall by warrant require any police officer specified in the warrant forthwith to dispossess and remove from the land the person aforesaid, and on behalf of the Director General of Lands and Mines to take possession of the land together with all crops growing thereon and all buildings and other immovable property upon and affixed to the land; and the warrant may be executed by any police officer into whose hands the warrant may come, whether or not it is addressed to him.
*NOTE—All references to “West Malaysia” shall be construed as reference to “Penisular Malaysia”–see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1997 [Act A996] subsection 5(2).
(1) For the purpose of holding land in Malaysia on behalf of the government of the United Kingdom pursuant to any agreement relating to defence, and of dealing on behalf of that government with any land which is or has been so held, there shall be constituted, by the name of the United Kingdom Services’ Lands Board, a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and consisting of such persons as may from time to time be nominated on behalf of that government.
(2) The United Kingdom Services’ Lands Board shall have power to regulate its own proceedings (including quorum), and any document purporting to be executed under the seal of the Board shall be presumed to have been duly executed unless the contrary is shown.
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Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).