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STRATA TITLES ACT 1985
ACT 318
(Amendment enforced from 12 April 2007)

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PART X - MISCELLANEOUS
78. Costs in proceedings by proprietors against management corporation.

79. Limitation Act 1953 not to extend to common property.

80. Power of entry by public or local authority.

80A. Prosecution.

81. Power of State Authority to make rules.

82. Transitional provision.

83. Repeal and amendment of provisions of the National Land Code.

84. Amendment of Forms.

85. Transitional provision with respect to rules, orders, etc.

PART X - MISCELLANEOUS

78.  Costs in proceedings by proprietors against management corporation.

(1) In any proceedings brought by one or more proprietors against the management corporation, a court of competent jurisdiction may order that any moneys (including costs) payable by the management corporation pursuant to an order of the court made in those proceedings shall be paid, only in respect of such parcels as are specified in the order and in such proportions as may be so specified, by the management corporation out of contributions levied for the purpose.

(2) Where the court makes an order under subsection (1), the management corporation shall, for the purposes of paying the moneys ordered to be paid by it, levy contributions in accordance with the terms of the order, and pay the moneys out of the contributions paid pursuant to that levy.

79.  Limitation Act 1953 not to extend to common property.

No action shall be brought by any person claiming title by adverse possession to the common property of a lot or to any accessory parcel or any part thereof created under this Act, and the provisions of the Limitation Act, 1953 relating to adverse possession shall not extend to such common property and accessory parcel.

80.  Power of entry by public or local authority.

A public or local authority which is authorised by any written law to enter upon part of a lot for the purposes of exercising any power conferred on it, may enter upon any other part of that lot if it is necessary to do so in order to exercise that power.

81.  Power of state authority to make rules.

(1) The State Authority may by notification in the Gazette, make rules not inconsistent with this Act for giving effect to the provisions of this Act, and in particular but without limiting the generality of the foregoing power in respect of all or any of the following matters:

(a) the fees to be paid for any procedures or functions required or permitted to be done under this Act and the remission of such fees;

(aa) the fees to be paid in respect of applications made to the Board under this Act and the remission of any such fees;

(ab) the practice and procedure of the Board;

(b) the convening of the first annual general meeting of a management corporation;

(c) the composition, nomination and election of members of the council of a management corporation of a subdivided building;

(d) the types of buildings to be classified as low-cost buildings; and

(e) any matter which by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to any provisions of this Act.

(2) Rules made under subsection (1) may provide for matters which differ in their application according to such factors as are specified in the rules.

(3) Rules made under subsection (1) may prescribe a penalty for any breach or contravention thereof of a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.

80A.  Prosecution.

No prosecution shall be instituted for an offence under this Act or any rules made under this Act without the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor.

82.  Transitional provision.

(1) The State Authority may, for the purposes of applying the provisions of this Act to subdivided buildings, subsidiary titles, parcels, common property, management corporations and councils which were in existence prior to the commencement of this Act, with or without modifications, additions or exclusions to or in respect of any such subdivided buildings, subsidiary titles, parcels, common property, management corporations or councils and for purposes incidental thereto, make rules providing for such modifications, additions or exclusions and such transitional, consequential or saving provisions as the State Authority may deem to be necessary or expedient.

(2) Until rules are made under subsection (1), nothing contained in this Act shall apply to any subdivision of a building effected, or to any subsidiary title issued, or to any parcel, common property, management corporation or council in existence, prior to the commencement of this Act, and the provisions of the National Land Code shall continue to apply thereto in the same manner as before the commencement of this Act.

(3) Nothing contained in the Fourth Schedule shall affect the provisions of the National Land Code in their application to any subdivision of a building effected, or to any subsidiary title issued, or to any parcel, common property, management corporation or council in existence, prior to the commencement of this Act.

83.  Repeal and amendment of provisions of the National Land Code.

(1) The provisions of the National Land Code as shown in Part I of the Fourth Schedule are repealed.

(2) The provisions of the National Land Code as shown in the first column of Part II of the Fourth Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the second column thereof.

84.  Amendment of Forms.

The Minister may, with the approval of the National Land Council, by order notified in the Gazette of the Federation, amend or substitute any of the Forms in the First Schedule.

85.  Transitional provision with respect to rules, orders, etc.

Any rule, order, regulation, direction, notice or notification made, given or issued before the commencement of this Act under the provisions of the National Land Code repealed by subsection (1) of section 83 shall, if it could have been made, given or issued under any corresponding provisions of this Act, continue in force, and have the like effect, as if it had been so made, given or, as the case may be, issued.

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