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Land Revenue Collections Enactment, the Conces- 
sions Enactment, regulations for the registration of 
documents, temporary occupation of land and other 
legislation. Finally in 1914 the Land Enactment 
1332 was passed in practically its present form. 
This law contained little or nothing that was new 
in Kedah land administration, being primarily a 
compilation of precedents and procedure approved 
by the State Council at various times. Nothing 
was embodied in it that was in principle foreign 
to the custom of the State. This legislation was 
far from being a complete land code, but it was a 
great advance on pre-existing law and by consolidat- 
ing the land regulations, it enabled land business 
to be carried on with greater expedition. Since the 
coming into operation of this Enactment, two 
amendments have been passed; one in a.h. 1337 
repealed Section 15 limiting the jurisdiction of the 
Court, the other in a.h. 1341 repealed Section 71 
limiting the rate of export duty on agricultural 
produce other than tapioca to 2 y 2 per cent, ad 
valorem and on tapioca to 3 per cent, ad valorem. 
The main body of rules under the Enactment were 
passed in 1334 (1916) since which they have been 
amended in respect of rates of premia and the 
manner of approving applications for land. 
The chief feature of the Land Enactment is the 
single title the “surat putus,” which is in effect 
a grant in perpetuity, based on survey and subject 
to certain reservations, covenants and conditions. 
The reservations are in respect of rivers, streams 
and waterways, mines and minerals. Beaches and 
foreshores are the property of the Government and 
there is a sixty-feet reserve along the sea-shore and 
banks of rivers. 
