Ng (front row, fifth from left) and Kajang Municipal Council president Nazli Md Taib (on Ng’s left) with participants of the Compliance and Enforcement of Illegal Factories Programme in Selangor 2025-2027 (Southern Zone) in Kajang.
Selangor has given illegal factories until Dec 31, 2027, to legalise their business. State local government and tourism committee chairman Datuk Ng Suee Lim said the factories had until Dec 31 this year to start the registration process.
“Based on a study conducted by the state government, there are 6,690 illegal factories operating on 5,352 plots of land that are privately- and government-owned,” said Ng in his speech at the Compliance and Enforcement of Illegal Factories Programme in Selangor 2025-2027 (Southern Zone) at Dewan Seri Cempaka MPKj in Kajang.
Ng said the data on illegal factories was collected with help from Selangor Land and Mines Office and involved those identified until 2019.
“Any new factories established after 2019 would not be eligible for the legalisation programme.”
Ng added that the programme to legalise factories was introduced in 2006 with the deadline for registration extended several times.
“We want to help factory owners and operators, but we also have to be fair to those that carry out their businesses properly and obey the law,” he said, adding the state government was offering several incentives to encourage factory owners to legalise, including a 30% discount on the premium for conversion of land use.
“Other incentives include nominal land premium payments, special land permits, temporary licences and compliance with minimum technical requirements for applications to local authorities.”
At the event, Ng also announced that Selangor, through district land offices, would be issuing notices to 97 factories for violating conditions under the National Land Code.
“There are two types of illegal factories. The first type is operating for years in zones not designated for industry, such as plantation.
“The second type is illegally operating on land owned by a government agency, such as reserve land.
“Those operating on government land have to move out within the next three years,” he said.
The compliance and enforcement programme is an ongoing series of townhall sessions where factory owners and operators can seek clarification on how to legalise their premises.
