Sandakan Division

Sandakan Division is the name for an administrative area within the State of Sabah in Malaysia. There are a total of five administrative regions ( divisions ), which are in turn divided into districts ( districts), which roughly corresponds to the districts in Germany.

Districts

The Sandakan Division is divided into four districts which are named after the name of the local cities:

• District Beluran with the city Beluran
• Kinabatangan Kinabatangan district to the city
• Sandakan district with the town of Sandakan
• District Tongod with the city Tongod

History

The division of Sabah in five areas ( divisions ) goes back to the administrative division of the North Borneo Chartered Company. After the takeover of North Borneo based on the 1881 Royal Charter granted, introduced by Baron Overbeck administrative division of the country was continued by means of the two residencies West Coast and East Coast Residency Residency. Seat of the two residents was Sandakan, where the governor had his seat. Each Residentur in turn was divided into several provinces, from a District Officer [note 1] were administered. With the progressive development of the country, the number of residencies was increased to five: Tawau Residency (also called East Coast Residency ), Sandakan Residency, West Coast Residency, Kudat Residency and Interior Residency; the provinces were initially named after the members of the Supervisory Board: Alcock, Cunlife, Dewhurst, Keppel, Dent, Martin, Elphinstone, Myburgh and Mayne. The senior residents occupied Sandakan and West Coast, while the other three residents with the residencies 2nd class (Interior, East Coast and Kudat ) had to make do. The residents of Sandakan and West Coast were members of the Legislative Council, the Legislative Assembly of the Company.

The division into residencies was maintained when North Borneo became after the Second World War, a Crown Colony. With the independence of Malaysia, the state of Sabah took over on 16 September 1963, the Regulation on administrative units, the administrative structure. Simultaneously, the Yang di - Pertuan Negeri Sabah, the head of state of Sabah authorized to make the division of the country into divisions and districts by proclamation [note 2]. The abolition of the concept of residency in favor of the concept of division took place in 1976.

The division now has only a formal meaning, and does not own administrative level longer represent The post of the Resident was also abolished as local government of Sabah is in the hands of the district officers.