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Fifthly, under Article 74 of the Federal Constitution, land matters which include petroleum resources come within the authority of the State List in the 9th Schedule. Permits and licences for prospecting for mines, mining leases and certificates also come within the ambit of the State List in the 9th Schedule. It is clear that the Malayan federal leaders had no legal basis to assert that the oil resources lying offshore Sabah belonged to the federal government. Moreover, the Malaysian Parliament has no business legislating the Petroleum Development Act, (PDA) 1974 when the matters come within the ambit of the State List in the 9th Schedule. The PDA is a worthless unconstitutional legislation, yet, it is still used to siphon off 95% of Sabahs oil and gas resources until today without a whimper of objections from Sabah BN leaders. To compound matters, the late Tun Razak had no legal authority and no jurisdiction over Sabahs oil and gas when he illegitimately and unlawfully signed the Vesting Order on 27 March 1975 vesting Sabahs oil and gas resources to Petronas, And to rub salt into the wound, Sabah leaders signed in 1976 acceptance of 5% as the cash payment for the vesting of Sabahs oil and gas to Petronas and allowing Petronas to steal the other 95%. The foolishness is made worse when they agreed to waive the imposition of royalties on the oil and gas produced which otherwise would have been payable by Petronas and the major oil corporations under Section 24 of the Land Ordinance. The loss of these royalties would have been between 12% to 30% if the figures given by Tengku Razaleigh is any yardstick to go by. A 30% royalty on the RM18 billion collected by Petronas would have netted the Sabah government an additional RM5.4 billion in additional revenue in 2012 to the RM3.7 billion State Budget revenue collected locally. As advised by Tan Sri Majid, the ball is now at the feet of present-day Sabahans to take up the issue of ownership and revenue sharing of Sabahs oil and gas resources. It is apparent that the current Sabah BN leaders cannot be relied upon to pursue the matter especially when the Chief Minister has given the hint to other leaders to keep quiet when he said that there is no urgency on review the oil payment from Petronas.