Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
120. Service of notices
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Every notice, order, summons or document required or authorized by this Act or any by-laws made thereunder to be served on any person may be served—
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
by delivering the same to such person or by delivering the same at the last known place of abode of such person to some adult member or servant of his family;
by leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode or business of such person in a cover addressed to such person; or
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by forwarding the same by post in a prepaid cover addressed to such person at his usual or last known place of abode or business.
A notice, order, summons or document required or authorized by this Act or any by-laws made thereunder to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises shall be deemed to be properly addressed if addressed by the description of the “owner” or “occupier” of such premises without further name or description.
owner
“owner” means— (a) the registered proprietor of the land; (b) the lessee of a lease including a sub-lessee of the land whether registered or not; (c) the agent or trustee of any of the owners described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition if in the opinion of Street, Drainage and Building 15 a local authority any of those persons cannot be traced or, if any of those persons has died, his legal personal representative; (d) the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant;
A notice, order, summons or document required or authorized by this Act or any by-laws made thereunder to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises may be served by delivering the same or a true copy thereof to some adult person on the premises or, if there is no such person on the premises to whom the same can with reasonable diligence be delivered, by affixing the notice, order, summons, or document to some conspicuous part of the premises.
occupier
“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of the land or building in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
Terms defined in s 3
occupier
Defined · s 3“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of the land or building in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
owner
Defined · s 3“owner” means— (a) the registered proprietor of the land; (b) the lessee of a lease including a sub-lessee of the land whether registered or not; (c) the agent or trustee of any of the owners described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition if in the opinion of Street, Drainage and Building 15 a local authority any of those persons cannot be traced or, if any of those persons has died, his legal personal representative; (d) the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant;
person
Defined · s 3“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
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;