Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
29. Names of streets
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The local authority may, subject to the approval of the State
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;
Authority, determine the name by which any street shall be known and may alter the name of any street or part of a street.
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 local authority may cause the name of any street to be painted, or otherwise marked, in a conspicuous position on any house, building or erection in or near such street and from time to time alter or renew such inscription of the name of any street, if the name of the street is altered or such inscription becomes illegible or damaged.
house
“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office, countinghouse, shop, school, and any other building in which persons are employed;
Any person who destroys, pulls down, defaces, covers or conceals any inscription of the name of a street which has lawfully
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
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building
“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;
been set up, or sets up in any street any other name different from the name lawfully given to such street, shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.
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;
house
Defined · s 3“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office, countinghouse, shop, school, and any other building in which persons are employed;
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;
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