Rabu, September 26, 2012

CLAIMS AFTER 1930 DON'T COME UNDER NCR: DEPT

Claims after 1930 don't come under NCR: Dept

Kota Kinabalu September 26, 2012: Claims of customary land beyond the 1930 Land Ordinance will not be included under Native Customary Rights (NCR) but opened and treated as new land applications.

Land and Survey Department Director Datuk Osman Jamal said the limit of the NCR claim has been effected by Section 5, 6(1) and 88 of the Sabah Land Ordinance (SLO), whose meaning many parties have wrongly defined.

"In these three sections beginning December 13, 1930, Government land and reserves in this State will be handed its full rights to the government.

With this, any illegal settlement on government land (despite how long the tenure was) or settlement with temporary stay authorisation could not make any claim, grant, importance or shape any rights to demand ownership on the land from the government.

"Rights, grant interest or business on the land will only be legitimate after it is registered in line with this Ordinance, except for ownership of lands that are still under the native customary rights for generations," he said.

However, he added, the department would still receive claims and consider customary land based on a seven-tier method of definition. These are:

  • - Legitimate ownership of settlement or cultivation for three years in a row;
  • - Land planted with fruits with more than 50 and above in a hectare;
  • - Unplanned cultivation of fruits, sago, rattan and any plants which have economic value and is proven that its produce are treated as a personal belonging of the natives;
  • - Active grazing land for animals;
  • - Land that has been cultivated and developed in a three year period;
  • - Religious and graveyard areas; and
  • - Pathway made for humans and animals from rivers, roads, houses.

"Under Section 14 of the SLO, the natives can make claims in writing.

The officers in the Collector of Land Revenue Office can open an investigation docket and insert all the documents containing strong proof and forward it to the Land and Survey Office for a land hearing," he said, during a media dialogue here.

He added even with the application and strong proof it could still be rejected but that natives could still forward and appeal to him within 30 days along with a RM50 fee.

Furthermore, his decision could also be appealed through the High Court level, Court of Appeal and later to the Federal Court.

This however, will take a long process compared to the application of communal titles which takes six months to a year.

He said the application is not as complicated as NCR claims and it was made to protect the lands from being sold to outsiders.

Earlier Osman stated that the progress of regulations on NCR took 41 years from 1889 until 1930 and have seen five amendments.

The five are Proclamation III of 1889, Abolition of Poll-Tax Proclamation, 1902, Land Proclamation, 1903, Ordinance no. 7 of 1913 and finally The Land Ordinance, 1930.

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Geran NCR 'kuasa pusaka' rakyat

20 ulasan:

  1. Communal land title is the best solution to this issues. It has ensured that they receive the land they had cultivated or lived in for generations

    BalasPadam
    Balasan
    1. Ya tapi saya yakin masih juga ada yang tak puas hati. huhu

      Padam
    2. I think his statement is contradicting the whole point of view of the government.

      Padam
  2. Communal Land Title also speeds up land department's work because one communal title would cover a large area but owned by hundreds of individuals. One examples is the issuance of a communal title in the east coast Tongod district had enabled 1,022 people to gain ownership of 10,000ha of land.

    BalasPadam
  3. Another plus point of communal land title is that the land cannot be sold, which reduce the chance of owner being landless again...

    BalasPadam
  4. Kenyataan ini telah pun menimbulkan pelbagai persoalan dan bantahan.

    BalasPadam
  5. Apa pun sebelum ini Kerajaan telah pun memberikan perlaksanakan Geran Komunal untuk rakyat bagi menyelesaikan masalah NCR ini. Apa pun kerajaan akan terus mencari jalan yang terbaik untuk semua ini.

    BalasPadam
    Balasan
    1. Setiap masalah pasti ada jalan penyesalannya. Persoalan sekarang kita suka atau tak saja.

      Padam
    2. geran komunal baik kerana ia memastikan tanah2 penduduk tidak dpt dijua. dgn ini tanah pendudk lebih terpelihara.

      Padam
    3. Kerajaan telah berusaha untuk membantu rakyat dalam isu tanah ini.

      Padam
  6. Pasti ramai yang tak puas hati dengan kenyataan ini. Harap ia dapat diperjelaskan supya semua faham.

    BalasPadam
  7. Isu tanah ni sama juga macam isu pati, susah sangat nak diselesaikan... Ada saja yang timbul.

    BalasPadam
    Balasan
    1. Ada saja yang tidak puas hati, biarpun macam-macam di buat oleh kerajaan, bukan senang untuk kasih puas hati semua pihak.

      Padam
  8. Apapun, saya harap kerajaan akan terus membantu rakyat dan menanggani hal-hal yang berkaitan tanah.

    BalasPadam
  9. perjuangkan dan lindingi hak2 penduduk.

    BalasPadam
  10. PBS would not subscribe to the mode of interpretation used by Land and Survey director Datuk Osman Jamal, seemingly to nullify the established legal provisions for the rights of the indigenous community to their native customary rights (NCR) land after 1930.

    BalasPadam
  11. PBS also called for more legal experts to come forward to give their views or even public debate to help the State interpret the original intention of the framers of the NCR land law.

    BalasPadam
  12. Maximus disagrees with State Attorney-General Datuk Roderic Fernandez's interpretation of the Native Customer Rights (NCR) provision in the Sabah Land Ordinance (SLO) that there is "no NCR land after 1930".

    BalasPadam
  13. "If he is correct, PBS will immediately move that the BN government amend the Sabah Land Ordinance to protect the rights of the natives of Sabah," said Maximus.

    BalasPadam
  14. sebelum ini pemimpin2 PBS pernah menyuarakan pendirian mereka bahawa mereka akan segera mengambil tindakan bagi memastikan kerajaan BN mengambil langkah dan melakukan pindaan dalam Ordinan Tanah Sabah bagi melindungi hak kaum pribumi Sabah dilindungi di bahawa ordinan berkenaan..

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