Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
Section 12
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Where street works have been executed to the satisfaction of the local authority under this Part in respect of a private street, which is not less than forty feet wide, then on the request—
street works
“street works” includes work of sewering, levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, kerbing, channelling, draining, lighting, laying of water, gas or electricity services and otherwise the making good a street or part of a street;
in the case of street works executed under section 11, of the several frontagers listed in the final apportionment as together have an annual value of more than fifty per centum of the total annual value of the premises so listed; or
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
in any other case, of the several frontagers of such private street or part of a private street as together have an annual value of more than fifty per centum of the total annual value of the premises fronting on, adjoining, abutting on or
(though not actually so fronting, adjoining or abutting)
adjacent or accessible to such private street or part of the private street, as the case may be, demanding that the private street or part of the private street be declared a public street, the local authority shall declare the same to be a public street and such street shall thereupon become a public street and forever afterwards be maintained by the local authority.
street
“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, service road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the way over any bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way over it or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street;
The declaration shall be published in such manner as the local authority thinks fit.
local authority
“local authority” means any city council, municipal council, town council, town board, local council, rural board or similar local authority established by written law and in relation to the Federal Territory means the Commissioner of the City of Kuala Lumpur appointed under section 3 of the Federal Capital Act 1960;
Terms defined in s 3
local authority
Defined · s 3“local authority” means any city council, municipal council, town council, town board, local council, rural board or similar local authority established by written law and in relation to the Federal Territory means the Commissioner of the City of Kuala Lumpur appointed under section 3 of the Federal Capital Act 1960;
premises
Defined · s 3“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
public street
Defined · s 3“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way which was usually repaired or maintained by the local authority before the coming into operation of this Act or which has been transferred to or has become vested in the local authority under this Act or in any other manner;
street
Defined · s 3“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, service road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the way over any bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way over it or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street;
street works
Defined · s 3“street works” includes work of sewering, levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, kerbing, channelling, draining, lighting, laying of water, gas or electricity services and otherwise the making good a street or part of a street;
Part III
Drains
Part IV
Back-Lanes
Part V
Buildings
Part VI
Miscellaneous
Part VII