Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
41. Precautions against accident. Bars to be erected across streets during repairs and lights placed at night
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The local authority, any person, or any other authority, shall, while carrying out the construction or repair of any street, back-lane, sewer or drain take proper precaution against accident by shoring up and protecting the adjoining houses and causing such bars, chains or posts to be fixed across or in any street or road to prevent the passage of carriages, carts or other vehicles, while such works are carried on as to it seems proper and causing the works to be sufficiently lighted and guarded during the night.
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
Any person, or other authority (but not the local authority) who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
Any person who takes down, alters or removes any such bar, chain or post or extinguishes any such light without the authority or
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consent of the local authority shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.
Terms defined in this Act
back-lane
Defined · s 69“back-lane” includes every back-lane whether now or hereafter existing and part thereof and any approach thereto and all land already or hereafter acquired or set apart for or laid out as a back lane and all channels, drains and appurtenances of a back-lane.
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;
sewer
Defined · s 3“sewer” has the same meaning assigned to it under the *Water Services Industry Act 2006;
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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Back-Lanes
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