Expand the implementation of 1 State 1 DCP initiatives at the State Level using the E10 Model and to remove unnecessary regulatory burdens to kick-start post COVID-19 construction activities

Reduce the renewal fees for TLQ with States/Local Authorities and give exemption for CLQ requirement for 2 years in properties

Validity of all permits/licences/approvals should be automatically extended until the end of 2022 to allow the preservation of cash flows as most permits/licences/approvals were not utilised during the lockdowns and Movement Control Orders (MCO)

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) is expanding its network of retail stations and re-developing its existing stations throughout Malaysia with the establishment of New Stations (NS), Quick-Serve Restaurants (QSR), Assets Refresh (AR) and Station Revamp. The implementation of these projects requires to obtain approvals from local authorities and is aimed at increasing Petronas’ market share.

The Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (REHDA), a member of TWGDCP, had highlighted high compliance costs as a key factor for the rise in real property prices. Compliance costs include levies and contributions payable to regulatory authorities as well as the costs of the construction of infrastructures within projects for use by utility companies. The other expenditures that developers have to bear and the time taken when complying with legislations, laws and regulations are also taken into account as costs.

The Perak State Government had announced in March 2022 that all poultry farms based in Perak had to operate by using the modern Closed-Sided System of poultry farming by 2025. The Closed-Sided System improves poultry husbandry and the productivity of poultry farming practices, reduces operational costs and is more environmentally-friendly.

The Malaysian Government had set a target of having at least 10,000 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) set-up by 2025. By January 2023, a total of about 1,000 charging stations had been established. In order to achieve the target, the process to obtain regulatory approval to set-up EVCS has to be expedited.

The e-Tanah electronic land administration system (e-Tanah) in use at the Federal Territories Director of Lands and Mines Office Kuala Lumpur (PPTGWPKL) since 2017 and at the Office of the Director of Lands and Mines Perak since 2021 had enabled transactions to be conducted online between these regulators and the private sector stakeholders even during the Movement Control Order (MCO) periods of the COVID-19 virus pandemic.

E-Tanah increases service delivery efficiency in land administration and will be fully expanded to Putrajaya, Labuan and the other peninsular states by 2024. Private searches, applications for ownership transfers and land mortgages, and payments can be performed online.

Technical Working Group on Registering Property (TWGRP) is pursuing an initiative to resolve the issue of not achieving vacant possession with strata titles despite property purchasers having made full payments to developers. Technical, administrative and legislative reforms are necessary to simplify the complexities within the regulatory process and the procedural compliances (workflow).

The applications for and the distribution and signing-off of strata titles in favour of unit purchasers in completed strata property projects where their real property developer companies had been liquidated have to be transacted with appointed private liquidators.

The disparity in amount between the transactional fees charged by private liquidators and the relatively nominal fee charged on unit purchasers by a developer company that is still in a solvent state causes delays and often becomes an insurmountable problem for purchasers to obtain their strata title deeds.

TWGRP is engaging with the Malaysian Department of Insolvency (Mdl), insolvency and legal practitioners, private liquidators and strata property purchasers and also facilitating their engagements to address the issue.