This Enactment may be cited as the State Secretary, Selangor
(Incorporation) Enactment 1955.

In this Enactment, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Corporation” means the State Secretary, Selangor incorporated under section 3;

“property” includes all estates interest, easements and rights,
whether equitable or legal, in, to or out of property and things
in action.

The officer for the time being discharging the duties of the
State Secretary, Selangor, and his successors in office, shall be a
body corporate under the name of “State Secretary, Selangor”.

The Corporation may sue and be sued in its name.

The Corporation shall have perpetual succession and
a corporate seal.

The Corporate seal may from time to time be broken,
changes, altered and made anew as the Corporation deems fit
and until a seal is provided under this section a stamp bearing
the inscription “State Secretary, Selangor” may be used as the
corporate seal.

Subject to and for the purpose of this Enactment, the Corporation may, upon such terms as the Corporation seems fit-
(a) enter into contracts;
(b) acquire, purchase take, hold and enjoy movable and
immovable property of every description; and
(c) convey, assign, surrender, yield up, charge, mortgage,
demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or
deal with, any movable or immovable property vested
in the Corporation.

All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring
the seal of the Corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the
Corporation in the presence of—
(a) the State Secretary, Selangor; or
(b) any officer appointed by the State Secretary, Selangor to
execute any instrument under this section,
who shall sign every such deed, document or other instrument
to which the corporate seal is affixed.

Such signing shall be sufficient evidence that the said seal
was duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful seal
of the Corporation.

All property, movable and immovable, of whatever description, which, immediately before the commencement of this Enactment, was vested in the Menteri Besar on behalf or for the purposes
of the Government of the State, including—
(a) property vested in the Menteri Besar under or by virtue
of the provisions of the Land Registration (Government
Interest) Enactment 1939 [En. 5/1939]*; and
(b) property vested in the Menteri Besar under or by virtue of
subclause (2) of Clause 140 of the Federation of Malaya
Agreement 1948*, shall, on the commencement of this
Enactment and without ant conveyance, assignment or
transfer whatever, vest in the Corporation for the like
title, estate or interest and on the like tenure as the same
was vested or held immediately before the commencement
of this Enactment.

A notification in the Gazette of the appointment of any
person—
(a) to hold or act in the office of the State Secretary, Selangor; or
(b) to execute any deed, document and other instrument for
the purpose of section 5,
shall be conclusive evidence that such person was duly so
appointed.

The Land Registration (Government Interests) Enactment 1939
[En. 5/1959] is hereby amended as follows:

(a) by deleting the definition of “Menteri Besar” in sub-
paragraph (i) in section 2 thereof and substituting

therefore the following:
“(i) ‘State Secretary’ means the Corporation established
under the name of ‘State Secretary’, Selangor’
(Incorporation) Enactment 1955.”;

(b) by repealing section 5 and section 10 thereof; and
(c) by substituting for the expression “Menteri Besar” wherever
it appears in sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 thereof the
expression “State Secretary”.