Section 30

Neither the public nor any person is deemed to have any right of ingress, egress or regress over any backlane vested in the Government or any part thereof except by express grant by the Authority which the Authority may withhold or give upon such terms as it may think fit.

The Authority may prepare a plan of any backlane and the Minister may, by writing under his or her hand, declare that, at the expiry of one month from the date thereof, the backlane is vested in the Government.

A copy of the declaration must be forthwith posted up in some part of the backlane.

At the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (2), unless the owners of the premises fronting, adjoining or abutting on the backlane or the owners of such premises having the greater part in annual value have, by notification to the Authority in writing under their hands, objected thereto, the backlane is vested in the Government.

Where a backlane has been declared to be vested in the Government under this section, the declaration must be registered together with the plan under the Land Titles Act 1993 in respect of registered land and under the Registration of Deeds Act 1988 in respect of other land.

Upon such registration, the land comprised in the plan is deemed to be vested in the Government freed from all encumbrances, and where the land is held under a statutory land grant, such vesting is not deemed to be a subdivision within the meaning of the State Lands Act 1920.