The Faculty of Accountancy and Management (FAM) Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) Programme organised the Guest Speaker Series on 27 June 2020. The webinar was held via Microsoft Teams. In this third series, invited as the speaker for the webinar was Dato' Pretam Singh Darshan Singh. Also present at the webinar was FAM Head of Programme for MBA (Building Management/Master of Real Estate Development) Dr Chin Hon Choong, lecturer Dr S. Sheelah and students.
Dato' Pretam Singh
Darshan Singh
Dato’ Pretam started his sharing
session titled, “Property Laws & Legislations” by introducing himself and
sharing his background where he started as a watchman in 1974 and rose to be
what he is today. Dato’ Pretam is the Partner of Pretam Singh, Nor & Co
Advocates & Solicitors. Dato’ Pretam is the president of the Property Real
Estate Lawyers Association. His practice is highly regarded and recognised
by major developers and officially placed on the “Panel of Lawyers” of
several developers, bankers, final institutions and GLCs. He also offers
advisory services in housing development such as application of Housing
Developer’s License, Advertising and Sales Permit, opening & operating of
Housing Developers’ Account under Housing Developers (Project Account)
Regulation 1991 and obtaining relevant exemption variations and waivers from
the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
The Guest Speaker Series aimed to
share informative and inspirational series of lectures to the students of
MRED. These series provided an opportunity for students to experience real
industrial requirement, experiences and development of the related fields,
aside from enhancing students’ learning experience by providing current and
relevant examples of the practical applications of the theory they learnt in
a particular subject.
Dato’ Pretam during
the webinar
In the webinar, he spoke about the
legislative history, housing corporation, saving and exemption, housing
development account, legal issues, housing tribunal and other related
topics. Aside from that, he also shared several case studies that came with
practical application throughout the webinar.
He said, “The purpose of an act is
to provide control and licensing of the business of housing development in
Peninsular Malaysia and the protection of the interest of purchasers and for
matters connected therewith. The housing legislation is principally aimed at
protecting the interest of purchasers. There are circumstances where the
nature and purpose of a particular legislation must be considered when
construing its various provisions so as not to defeat the intention of
Parliament.”
“Every legal power must have legal
limits, otherwise there will be a dictatorship. In other words, every
discretion cannot be free from legal restraint; where it is wrongly
exercised, it becomes a duty of the courts to intervene,” added Dato’
Pretam. He also explained the “housing accommodation” under the Housing
Development Act which includes any building, tenement or messuage which is
wholly or principally constructed, intended for human habitation or partly
for human habitation and partly for business premises and such other type of
accommodation prescribed under the section 3A to be housing accommodation.
Dato’ Pretam elucidated that,
“Housing Development means to develop or construct or cause to be
constructed in any manner more than four units of housing accommodation and
it includes the collection of money or carrying on any building operations
for the purpose of erecting housing accommodation in, on, under or over any
land.”
The webinar was followed by a Q&A
session before it adjourned.
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