Perbadanan Menteri Besar Kelantan

On the court record

A State corporate body whose matters study land-acquisition compensation: the First Schedule factors for market value, severance and injurious affection, and the procedure for responding to the assessors' report.

Perbadanan Menteri Besar Kelantan (PMBK) appears in the corpus as a State corporate body in land-reference and pre-incorporation-contract matters, and its appearances centre on the assessment of compensation for compulsorily acquired land. In High Court matters framed in Bahasa Malaysia the court addressed a rujukan tanah (land reference) under the Akta Pengambilan Tanah 1960 (Land Acquisition Act 1960), considering the matters to be weighed under the First Schedule in determining the market value of the subject land, injurious affection and severance (kesan mudarat dan kesan pemisahan), the reasonableness of compensation for buildings and structures, and the opportunity for parties to respond to the assessors' report — clarifying that further submissions, rather than the filing of new documents or additional valuation reports, was the proper course after the assessors' report was received.

In a related interlocutory matter the court gave parties the opportunity to respond to the assessors' report through further submissions and declined to admit new documents, upon which the applicant's counsel withdrew the interlocutory application. In a Federal Court matter the corporation was a respondent in a dispute engaging the pre-incorporation-contracts rule under section 35 of the Companies Act 1965, estoppel, the intention to create legal relations, and a letter of intent.

For a reader, the cluster is a focused study of land-acquisition compensation: the First Schedule factors governing market value, severance and injurious affection, the procedure for responding to the assessors' report, and, separately, the enforceability of pre-incorporation arrangements. The corporation and other authorities are named in their official capacity as they appear on the record; individual and corporate claimants are referred to by their procedural role or by name as they appear. The corporation's matters concentrate on the assessment of compensation for compulsorily acquired land, where the First Schedule factors govern market value, severance and injurious affection, and the procedure for responding to the assessors' report is closely regulated. The separate pre-incorporation-contract dispute rounds out the picture of a State corporate body litigating both its land-acquisition entitlements and its ordinary contractual dealings.