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Lands, not exceeding fifty relongs in area, if left 
uncultivated for two years so as to become a menace 
to adjacent land, may be resumed after an order 
to abate the menace has been made and disregarded. 
If land is left uncultivated for three years, the 
owner may be required to cultivate and if he does 
not do so, the land may be resumed. 
The land administration is in the hands of a 
Director of Lands under whom are nine District 
Land Officers, each in charge of a district. The 
Director is advised by a European Officer known as 
the Adviser, Lands. Applications for land are 
lodged with the Director or a District Land Officer 
according as the area exceeds or does not exceed 
50 relongs. The District Land Officers have no 
power of alienation. The Director has power to- 
alienate land for the cultivation of padi up to 200 
relongs, for kampong or orchard cultivation up to 
100 relongs and for other cultivation up to 50 
relongs. Applications for areas up to 500 relongs 
are referred for approval to a Land Alienation 
Board, consisting of the Adviser Lands, the Director 
and the District Officer of the district in which the 
land is situated. Applications for areas greater 
than 500 relongs are submitted by the Land Aliena- 
tion Board to the Government. Upon approval of 
an application and after a rough demarcation, the 
applicant is permitted to enter into occupation prior 
to issue of title upon his signing an “akuan” 
(undertaking) to observe the conditions of occupa- 
tion. The provisions of the law as regards the 
issue of permits as authority for occupation have 
been superseded in practice by the “ akuan ” system. 
Provisional titles known as “Surat Kechil ” issue 
after demarcration by the Survey Office, and the 
