20 Aug 2025
FESTIVA MALL SDN BHD BADAN PENGURUSAN BERSAMA ZETAPARK
- Citation
- WA-22NCvC-281-04/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
- Court
- High Court
- Case number
- WA-22NCvC-281-04/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
The JMB owes a non-delegable statutory duty under s.21 SMA 2013 to manage and collect maintenance charges and sinking fund for the common property including areas serving the Mall; clauses in the Tripartite Agreement purporting to exclude or transfer those statutory functions are void and unenforceable under ss.148 and 149 SMA 2013; the JMB is entitled to claim back-charges but claims for amounts due more than six years before the writ (prior to 30 April 2018) are barred by Limitation Act 1953 s.6(1)(d) absent partial payments under s.26(2); a JMB lacks statutory power to impose differential…