Strata Title Board for two states operational soon

Utusan Online 10/10/2003

KUALA LUMPUR Oct 9 - The Dewan Rakyat was told that the Strata Title Boards for Selangor and Penang will be operational and gazetted by the respective state governments very soon.

Deputy Minister of Land and Cooperative Development Dr Tan Kee Kwong said the process of setting up the board was in the final stage.

He said the board would be responsible for hearing and resolving serious cases involving strata titles.

"With the setting up of the board, any lot owners who are not satisfied can bring up their cases to the board for settlement," he said when winding up the Budget 2004 for his ministry at the committee stage at the Dewan Rakyat Thursday.

For the other states, he said, the formation of the board was still at the preparatory stage to be adapted to the method of issuing strata titles in the respective states.

Tan said among the powers of the board would be to resolve disputes on repair costs, issue order for furnishing information or document, order on agreement concerning joint property, and order to amend the amount of insurance that must be provided.

On old buildings in the Klang Valley which did not have the Certificate of Fitness for Occupancy (CFO), Tan said his ministry and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government were discussing with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) on the possibility of issuing a special certificate to owners of these buildings so that strata title could be issued to them.

He said the special certificates were only for buildings which were more than 25 years old.

The house will sit again Friday.