PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK
About PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK
PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK appears in 7 reported Malaysia court cases (2024–2026). PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK is recorded as Respondent (6) and Appellant (1). These cases were heard before MYHC (6) and MYCOA (1).
On the court record
A state land-title registrar whose litigation centres on tenure conversion from perpetuity to leasehold, Malay-reservation land, and judicial-review challenges met by locus standi and Order 53 time-bar defences.
Pendaftar Hakmilik Negeri Perak (the Perak State Registrar of Titles) is a land-registration authority, and it appears throughout the corpus as a respondent in disputes over the registration, conversion and reservation of land in Perak. The cases are grounded in the National Land Code and in state land legislation, and they show the Registrar defending the integrity of the register against a range of challenges.
A prominent strand concerns the conversion of land tenure. In several matters landowners challenged the reduction of their titles from a term in perpetuity to leasehold not exceeding 99 years — from freehold to leasehold — on the conversion, sub-division and re-alienation of land, questioning whether an originating summons was the correct mode of commencing proceedings and whether section 380 of the National Land Code permitted the outcome. The Court of Appeal considered the power of the State Authority when approving such conversions and the purchasers' duty of due diligence. Other matters raised Malay-reservation land: whether reserve land had been bought at auction by a non-Malay company contrary to the Enakmen Rizab Melayu Perak (the Perak Malay Reservations Enactment) and the plaintiffs' locus standi to bring such an action.
The Registrar has also resisted judicial review. In one application to quash a registration and compel re-registration, the High Court held there was no reviewable "decision" under Order 53 rule 2(4) because the Registrar had acted pursuant to court orders, that the proper remedy lay in civil enforcement of the consent judgment, and that the application was in any event time-barred under Order 53 rule 3(6) for being filed beyond the three-month limit, strict compliance with which is jurisdictional. Further matters involved discovery under Order 24 and a challenge over whether a 1910 reservation had created an irrevocable wakaf khas. Taken together, these disputes place the Registrar at the centre of a long-standing tension between private landowners' expectations of perpetual title and the State Authority's statutory powers over the reservation, conversion and re-alienation of land, with the correct mode of commencing proceedings and the plaintiffs' locus standi recurring as threshold issues.
How many Malaysia court cases involve PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK?
PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK appears in 7 reported Malaysia court cases (2024–2026).
Which courts does PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK appear in?
PENDAFTAR HAKMILIK NEGERI PERAK appears before MYHC (6) and MYCOA (1).
What role does Pendaftar Hakmilik Negeri Perak play in these cases?
It appears as the state title-registration authority, most often as a respondent defending registrations, tenure conversions and reservations of land in Perak under the National Land Code and state land enactments.
What was decided in the judicial review to quash a registration?
The High Court dismissed it, holding there was no reviewable decision under Order 53 rule 2(4) because the Registrar acted pursuant to court orders, that the remedy lay in enforcing the consent judgment, and that the application was time-barred under the three-month limit in Order 53 rule 3(6).