Section 42

In this Act and in any regulations made thereunder, “back-lane” includes every back-lane whether now or hereafter existing and any part thereof and any approach thereto and all land already or hereafter acquired or set apart for or laid out as a back-lane and all channels, drains and appurtenances of a back-lane.

Neither the public nor any person shall be deemed to have any right of ingress, egress or regress over any back-lane vested in the Government or any part thereof except by express grant by the Director-General which he may at his discretion withhold or give upon such terms as he may think fit.

The Director-General may prepare a plan of any back-lane and the Minister by writing under his hand may declare that it shall vest in the Government and may register the writing together with the plan under the Land Titles Act [Cap. 157] in respect of registered land and under the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269] in respect of other land.

Upon such registration the land comprised in the plan shall be deemed to be vested in the Government freed from all encumbrances, and, where the land is held under a statutory land grant, such vesting shall not be deemed to be a subdivision within the meaning of the State Lands Act [Cap. 314].

Subsections (3) and (4) shall not apply to any land set apart or acquired under section 38.

The Minister may with the sanction of the President sell, lease or exchange for other land a back-lane or any part thereof.[57