(1) FEASIBILITY STUDY/REPORTS BY SAMA CONSORTIUM

(2) MEASURES TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS OF SEA-WATER INTRUSION

(3) PROBLEMS AT DURIN, SUNGAI ASSAN, SUNGAI MAAW FERRY POINTS

(4) CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES IN SIBU

(5) ROYALTIES FOR OIL AND GAS

(6) PUBLICATION OF NEWSPAPERS IN IBAN LANGUAGE

(7) LAND GAZETTED UNDER SECTIONS 47 & 48

(8) EXPIRY OF LAND LEASE

(9) AMENDMENT OF RELEVANT SECTIONS IN SARAWAK LAND CODE

(10) GUNS SURRENDERED TO GOVERNMENT
 
 

Speeches /Debates

"MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND MEMBERS OF DEWAN UNDANGAN NEGERI (REMUNERATION, PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES) (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1966"

"MOTION OF THANKS TO TYT YANG DI-PERTUA NEGERI SARAWAK FOR OPENING OF the 1st Meeting Of the 1st Session Of the 14th DEWAN UNDANGAN NEGERI"

DEBATE SPEECH BY WONG HO LENG, STATE ASSEMBLYMAN FOR BUKIT ASSEK, SIBU, ON THE SUPPLY (1997) BILL, 1996 
 
 
 

Encik Wong Ho Leng asked the Chief Minister and Minister for Resource Planning: Many landowners have complained that their lease term is too short. Many are for 60 years. Upon expiry of these leases, the landowners are required to pay a hefty sum of premium before they could get extension of the lease term. Some premium even amounting to 50% of the land value as valued by the Land and Survey Department. There are also terms and conditions imposed on the extended lease which had otherwise been absent from the original land titles.

(a) How many leases would expire within the next 3 years, 6 years, 10 years and 20 years; and

(b) What criteria are adopted by the State Government as to how much premium are payable for extension of individual leases and what conditions are to be imposed. Please clarify according to agricultural land, residential land, commercial land and industrial land categories.

Ketua Menteri dan Menteri Perancangan Sumber (Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud): Tuan Speaker, untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat bagi Bukit Assek bahawa sistem sekarang telah berjalan dan diterima rakyat semenjak zaman Pre Land Code dahulu. Melainkan ada sebab-sebab munasabah kita tidak bercadang untuk menukarkan sistem yang telah diterima dan dipakai begitu lama. Mengikut amalan daripada zaman Rajah Brooke lagi sistem ini tidak membebankan rakyat dan apabila tempoh surat tanah tamat selalunya kerajaan bersetuju meluluskannya. Kalau tanah itu di kawasan luar bandar di mana perubahan dalam bentuk kegunaan tanah tidak mungkin berlaku dalam jangka masa yang pendek, tempoh sambungan yang kita lulus adalah cukup panjang, iaitu sama dengan tempoh asal diluluskan. Tetapi kalau ada kemungkinan perubahan kegunaan tanah selalunya akibat daripada pembangunan di satu-satu tempat, jangka rnasa yang lebih pendek terpaksa kita kenakan.

Ahli Yang Berhormat patut menyedari bahawa soal memberi sambungan kepada tempoh hakmilik tanah selepas tempoh asal tamat adalah mengikut budibicara kerajaan, at the discretion of the government dan tidaklah menjadi hak automatik. Ini adalah sejajar dengan amalan semua negara, termasuk Negara Singapura. Asas bagi meletak bayaran premium ialah nilai pasaran or market price walaupun untuk menggalakkan pembangunan, kerajaan hanya mengena di antara 25% sampai 61 % sahaja ke atas pihak yang meminta sambungan lease mereka bergantung kepada percentage-nya, bergantung kepada kedudukan tanah itu sama ada di luar bandar, di kawasan bandar ataupun di pinggiran bandar dan bergantung kepada kegunaan sama ada commercial, residential ataupun agriculture.