Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part VIII
134. Repeals, transitional provisions, etc.
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The laws specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed as from the commencement of this Act.
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may, at any time within the period of five years beginning with the commencement of this Act, by order under this section—
repeal any other written law in force immediately before that commencement and rendered obsolete or unnecessary by any provision thereof;
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make such repeals or amendments in any such law as he may consider necessary for the purpose of bringing the provisions thereof into accord with the provisions of this
Act, or of supplementing the last mentioned provisions in any respect:
Provided that the power conferred by this subsection shall not be exercised in respect of a State Law otherwise than with the concurrence of the State Authority.
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;
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;