“Central Bank” means the Central Bank of Malaysia established under the Central of Malaysia Act 1958 [Act 519];
“charges” means any money collected by the owner, developer, Body or managing agent from the purchaser for the maintenance and management of a building or land intended for subdivision into parcels and common property;
“common property”, in relation to a development area, means so much of the development area as is not comprised in any parcel, such as the structural elements of the building, stairs, stairways, fire escapes, entrances and exits, corridors, lobbies, fixtures and fittings, lifts, refuse chutes, refuse bins, compounds, drains, water tanks, sewers, pipes, wires, cables and ducts that serve more than one parcel, the exterior of all common parts of the building, playing fields and recreational areas, driveways, car parks and parking areas, open spaces, landscape areas, walls and fences, and all other facilities and installations and any part of the land used or capable of being used or enjoyed in common by all the occupiers of the building;
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Buildings appointed under section 3;
“Committee” means the Joint Management Committee established under section 11;
“developer” means any person or body of persons (by whatever name described), who develops any land for the purpose of accommodation including accommodation for commercial and industrial use and includes the executors, administrators and successors in title and permitted assigns of such person or body of persons;
“development area” means any alienated land held as one lot under final title (whether Registry or Land Office title) on which building or land intended for subdivision into parcels is constructed or is in the course of construction;
“local authority” includes any person or body of persons appointed under any written law to exercise and perform the powers and duties which are conferred and imposed on a local authority under any written law’
“local authority area” means any area in a State that has been declared by the State Authority to be a local authority in accordance with section 3 of the Local Government Act 1976 [Act 171];
“management corporation” means the management corporation established under the Strata Titles Act 1985;
“managing agent” means any person appointed by the Commissioner of Buildings under section 25;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for local government;
“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of the building, but, in the case of premises for lodging purposes, does not include a lodger;
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