Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
132. Improvement Service Fund
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
There shall be established for the purpose of this Act in each local authority a fund to be known as the “Improvement Service Fund”
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;
into which shall be paid all moneys that may from time to time be paid to a local authority for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, all moneys recoverable by the local authority from any person under this Act or any by-laws made thereunder and any contributions from any person towards the beautification, construction or laying out of any street, drain, culvert, gutter or water-course.
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
The Improvement Service Fund shall be administered by the local authority at its absolute discretion.
Improvement Service Fund
“Improvement Service Fund” means the Improvement Service Fund established under section 132;
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2) the local authority may pay out from the Improvement Service Fund any expenses which may be incurred in carrying out the provisions of this
Act.
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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;
Terms defined in s 3
building
Defined · s 3“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure support or foundation connected to the foregoing;
Improvement Service Fund
Defined · s 3“Improvement Service Fund” means the Improvement Service Fund established under section 132;
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;
person
Defined · s 3“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
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;