Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
19. Local authority may execute and cause to be properly carried out street works
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
If street works are not commenced after the commencement of building operations or are not executed to the satisfaction of the local authority, in any case where a deposit has been made or security given under subsection 18(2), the local authority may, at any time after giving notice of its intention to do so execute or cause the street works to be properly carried out.
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;
The costs of the execution of the street works or of causing the street works to be properly carried out by the local authority shall be recovered from the deposit made or security given under subsection 18(2).
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
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;
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;
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;
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