Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
93. Proceedings where owner is unknown
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Where the name or address of the owner of any premises with regard to which a Magistrate’s Court is empowered to make a mandatory order is unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be discovered, such court may issue a summons addressed to the owner of the premises.
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;
Such summons may be served in the manner specified in section 120.
If the owner does not appear upon the hearing of the summons, such court may make such an order upon him in his absence as it might
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have made in his presence except that it shall not inflict any fine upon him.
Terms defined in s 3
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;
premises
Defined · s 3“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;