Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
31. Numbers on houses
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The local authority shall in its discretion allot a number to any house or building and may fix a mark displaying such number in a conspicuous place on the outside of any house or building or at the entrance of the enclosure fronting the street, and may from time to time change such number and replace or refix any mark displaying such number.
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;
Penalty for destroying
Any person who destroys, pulls down, defaces, covers or conceals any such mark shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
The owner and occupier of such house or building shall protect such number.
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;
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The expense of replacing or refixing any such number which has been destroyed, pulled down, defaced, covered or concealed shall be paid by the occupier or, if the house or building is unoccupied, by the owner, and shall be recoverable in the manner hereinafter provided.
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
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;
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;
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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