Malaysia legislation
Section 16
Section 16
New section 76a
The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 76
the following section:
“Authorized left turns 76a. (1) Notwithstanding a red signal or other traffic sign indicating a place where traffic must stop at any traffic junction, any person driving a motor vehicle on a road may turn left at the traffic junction in accordance with any traffic sign authorizing such left turn that has been lawfully sited on such road after stopping before the marked stop line on the road to ascertain that it is safe to do so.
(2)
For the purpose of subsection (1), the Minister may, after consultation with the Minister charged with the responsibility for works, make rules relating to the movement of motor vehicles and pedestrians and the erection of traffic signs at such authorized left turn traffic junctions.
(3)
An appropriate authority may, with the approval of the
Minister charged with the responsibility for works in relation to a Federal road and designated Federal Territory road, and in any case after consultation with the Chief Police Officer, establish such traffic signs as it considers appropriate, and shall execute any works (including the placing, erection and maintenance of traffic signs) required in connection with such authorized left turn traffic junctions.
(4)
Any person who contravenes this section or any rules made under this section in relation to an authorized left turn shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine of not less than three hundred ringgit and not more than two thousand ringgit.”.
Amendment of section 79