Railways Act 1991 · Updated to 1 Sep 2012 · Part IX · Offences and Penalties
65. Opening or not properly shutting gates
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any person opens or attempts to open any gate set up on either side of any railway track across a road, or passes or attempts to pass, or drives or takes or attempts to drive or take, any vehicle, animal or other thing across the railway tracks; or
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“railway” means any kind of railway for the public carriage of passengers or goods or both, or any portion thereof, and includes— (a) all rails, beams, cables, sidings, or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway; (b) all rolling-stock used for the purposes of traffic; and (c) in so far as the context allows, a railway under construction by or for any railway company, but does not include— (d) the Sabah Railway; (e) any railway used or, in the case of a railway to be constructed, intended to be used, by any person for the carriage of goods within any premises occupied by such person; and (f) any railway used or, in the case of a railway to be constructed, intended to be used, wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers within any amusement or recreational premises;
in the absence of a gate-keeper, any person omits to shut and fasten and, where necessary, to lock such a gate as aforesaid as soon as he and any vehicle, animal or other thing under his charge has passed through the gate, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.