Malaysia legislation
Section 45
Section 45
(1)
An Authority may from time to time cause the houses, buildings or erections fronting upon any street or other public place to be marked with such numbers as it may think fit, and may cause the name by which any street or other public place is or is to be known to be put up or painted on a conspicuous part of any house, building, fence, wall or place fronting thereon, and may at its discretion change or vary any such number, whether or not such number existed before the commencement of this Ordinance.
(2)
Any person who destroys, pulls down, or defaces any such number or name or, without the permission of the Authority, puts up any number not having been approved by the
Authority or name not being approved under the Town and Country Planning Ordinance [Cap.