Section 75

The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister charged with the responsibility for works, may make rules with respect to the precedence of vehicles and pedestrians respectively, and generally

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with respect to the movement of traffic (including pedestrians) at and in the vicinity of a crossing (including rules prohibiting pedestrians on the carriageway within one hundred metres of a crossing), and with respect to the indication of the limits of a crossing by marks on the roadway or otherwise, and to the erection of traffic signs in connection therewith.

Different rules may be made under this section in relation to different traffic conditions and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, different rules may be made in relation to crossings in the vicinity of, and at a distance from, a junction of roads, and to traffic which is controlled by the police, by traffic warden and by traffic signals and by different kinds of traffic signals and to traffic which is not so controlled.

An appropriate authority may, with the approval of the Minister charged with the responsibility for works in relation to a Federal road, and in any case after consultation with the Chief Police Officer, establish such crossings as it thinks fit, and shall execute any works

(including the placing, erection and maintenance of marks and traffic signs) required in connection with such crossings, or with the indication in accordance with the rules made under this section.

If any person contravenes any rule having effect in relation to a crossing he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.

Duty of pedestrians to comply with traffic directions