Amendment Act · As enacted
Road Transport (Amendment) Act 2019
Feedback & supportAmends the Road Transport Act 1987Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
This Act may be cited as the Road Transport (Amendment)
Act 2019.
This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
s 2Amendment of section 2
The Road Transport Act 1987 [Act 333], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 2—
by inserting after the definition of “maximum permissible laden weight” the following definition:
‘ “Mayor of a City Council” includes Commissioner of a City and “Mayor” shall be construed accordingly;’;
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by inserting after the definition of “police officer” the following definition:
‘ “prescribe”, where no mode is mentioned, means to prescribe by rules made under this Act;’;
by inserting after the definition of “Chief Police Officer”
the following definition:
‘ “City Council” includes a Council of a City and a City;’;
by inserting after the definition of “motor vehicle” the following definition:
‘ “Municipal Council” means a Municipal Council for a local authority area that has been declared and determined in accordance with paragraph 3(d) of the
Local Government Act 1976 [Act 171], paragraph 6(1)(cc)
of the Local Government Ordinance 1961 [Sabah
No. 11 of 1991] and paragraph 3(1)(e) of the Local
Authorities Ordinance 1996 [Sarawak Cap. 20];’;
by deleting the definition of “Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan
Awam Darat”; and
in the definition of “traffic warden”, by inserting after the words “Putrajaya,” the words “the Mayor of a City
Council,”.
s 3Amendment of section 3
Section 3 of the principal Act is amended by substituting for subsection (4b) the following subsection:
“(4b) The Mayor of a City Council, the President of a
Municipal Council or the Chairman of a Municipal Council may appoint such number of persons in the service of the City
Council or the Municipal Council as he considers necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act to be traffic wardens and may, after consultation with the Inspector General of Police, prescribe uniforms for such officers.”.
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s 4Amendment of section 3a
Section 3a of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (4).
s 5Substitution of section 4
The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 4
the following section:
s 4“Powers and duties of Dato Bandar, etc.
The powers and duties of the Dato Bandar, the Perbadanan
Putrajaya, the Mayor of a City Council, the President of a
Municipal Council, the Chairman of a Municipal Council and traffic wardens under this Act shall not be exercised outside or in respect of offences committed outside the
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Territory of Putrajaya, the City Council or the Municipal Council, respectively.”.
s 6Deletion of section 4b
The principal Act is amended by deleting section 4b.
s 7Amendment of section 5
Paragraph 5(1)(e) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “does not exceed” the word “exceeds”.
s 8Amendment of section 64
Subsection 64(1) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “a Director or the Dato Bandar” the words
“a Director, a Deputy Director authorized in writing in that behalf by the Director General, or the Dato Bandar”.
s 9Amendment of section 65
Section 65 of the principal Act is amended—
in subsections (1), (3), (5), (6) and (7), by inserting after the words “the Perbadanan Putrajaya” wherever appearing the words “, the Mayor of a City Council”; and
in subsection (4), by substituting for paragraph (ca) the following paragraph:
“(ca) the Mayor of a City Council, the President of a Municipal Council or the Chairman of a
Municipal Council, if the motor vehicle was caused to be removed by a traffic warden or any officer in the service of the City Council or the Municipal Council;”.
s 10Amendment of section 66
Subsection 66(1) of the principal Act is amended—
in paragraph (nn), by deleting the words “that are not worthy of repair due to serious accidents, old age or other causes or where the chassis number thereof has been tampered with”;
in paragraph (pp), by inserting after the words “recall mechanism” the words “and to provide for the fees to be charged relating to it”;
by substituting for the full stop at the end of paragraph
the words “; and”; and
by inserting after paragraph (ss) the following paragraph:
“(tt) to regulate the use of any glass or other transparent material fitted to a motor vehicle and to provide for the fees to be charged relating to it.”.
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s 11Amendment of section 88
Paragraph 88(1)(r) of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the words “police officer” the words “, road transport officer”.
s 12Amendment of section 120
Subsection 120(1) of the principal Act is amended—
by substituting for paragraph (cb) the following paragraph:
“(cb) the Mayor of a City Council, the President of a Municipal Council or the Chairman of a
Municipal Council or the officers of the City
Council or the Municipal Council specially authorized in writing by name or by office in that behalf by the Mayor of a City Council, the President of a Municipal Council or the
Chairman of a Municipal Council, respectively;”;
and
by substituting for the words “may in his discretion” the words “may, with the consent in writing of the Public
Prosecutor,”.
s 13Amendment of section 123
Section 123 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1), by inserting after the words “Putrajaya,” the words “the Mayor of a City Council,”.