News & Articles Amendment to Act 118 to improve legal system on housing
Amendment to Act 118 to improve legal system on housing
18 Mar 2015
Deputy Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Halimah Mohd Sadique said the amendments were aimed at improving the legal aspects to enable the National Housing Department and her ministry take more aggressive action against irresponsible developers.
"However, the amendments to Act 118 had still not been enforced at the moment as the act needed to be enforced together with the Strata Management Act 2013 (Act 757) and Strata Titles Act (amendment) 2013 (Act 318)," she said in reply to question from Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin (BN-Padang Besar) who wanted the government to state the locations and number of abandoned projects nationwide.
The amendments to Act 118 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 30, 2011 and are expected to be enforced this year.
The amendments to Act 118 include several new provisions, among them, Section 6, on additional deposit for housing development licence and Section 8 on cancellation of the sales and purchase agreement if the buyer finds that there is no development on a housing project in six months from the date the agreement was signed.
Halimah said from 2009 to Jan 31, 2015, 216 abandoned private housing projects were recorded.
Nonetheless, from the total, 164 projects were completed while 52 were still in various stages of rehabilitation by the government, she said.
Of the 52 projects 21 are in Selangor, Perak (nine), Johor (eight), Pahang (four), Negri Sembilan (four), Penang (two), Kedah (two), Kelantan (one) and Federal Territory (one).
Replying to a supplementary question by Er Teck Hwa (DAP-Bakri) on the statistics of blacklisted developers, Halimah said as at March 2, 2015, 1,018 housing developers and 3,607 board members (of housing companies) were blacklisted by the ministry.
On another issue, Deputy Federal Territories Minister Senator Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan said overall, there were five Federal Territories Affordable Housing (Rumawip) projects comprising 2,795 units and each unit is priced at RM300,000.
"The Rumawip initiative is aimed at giving Federal Territories' residents a chance to own houses at a lower price," he said in reply to a question from Tian Chua (PKR-Batu) who wanted to know of plans to build houses in Batu area. – Bernama
"However, the amendments to Act 118 had still not been enforced at the moment as the act needed to be enforced together with the Strata Management Act 2013 (Act 757) and Strata Titles Act (amendment) 2013 (Act 318)," she said in reply to question from Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin (BN-Padang Besar) who wanted the government to state the locations and number of abandoned projects nationwide.
The amendments to Act 118 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 30, 2011 and are expected to be enforced this year.
The amendments to Act 118 include several new provisions, among them, Section 6, on additional deposit for housing development licence and Section 8 on cancellation of the sales and purchase agreement if the buyer finds that there is no development on a housing project in six months from the date the agreement was signed.
Halimah said from 2009 to Jan 31, 2015, 216 abandoned private housing projects were recorded.
Nonetheless, from the total, 164 projects were completed while 52 were still in various stages of rehabilitation by the government, she said.
Of the 52 projects 21 are in Selangor, Perak (nine), Johor (eight), Pahang (four), Negri Sembilan (four), Penang (two), Kedah (two), Kelantan (one) and Federal Territory (one).
Replying to a supplementary question by Er Teck Hwa (DAP-Bakri) on the statistics of blacklisted developers, Halimah said as at March 2, 2015, 1,018 housing developers and 3,607 board members (of housing companies) were blacklisted by the ministry.
On another issue, Deputy Federal Territories Minister Senator Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan said overall, there were five Federal Territories Affordable Housing (Rumawip) projects comprising 2,795 units and each unit is priced at RM300,000.
"The Rumawip initiative is aimed at giving Federal Territories' residents a chance to own houses at a lower price," he said in reply to a question from Tian Chua (PKR-Batu) who wanted to know of plans to build houses in Batu area. – Bernama
Source: The Sun Daily