Land Public Transport Act 2010 · Updated to 1 Jul 2025 · Chapter 8
128. Damage, whether wilful or negligent, etc.
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person
“person” includes an individual person, company, partnership, and any other corporate and unincorporate body of persons;
wilfully or negligently damages any railway, railway premises or any property belonging to a licensed operator;
removes sand, stone, earth or any other matter or thing from banks, bridges, culverts, retaining walls, railway tracks or any other property belonging to a licensed operator; or
fells timber in a manner likely to endanger the safety of passing railway trains or any person or goods in or upon such trains, or to cause damage to the railway track, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.
Any person who ties up the wires of wire fencing appertaining to a railway, breaks down or destroys any fencing or hedges appertaining to a railway, or does or causes to be done any act that damages or is likely to damage such fencing or hedges commits 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.
railway
“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; (c) in so far as the context allows, a railway under construction by or for any railway company; and (d) any guided system or guided system of a class prescribed to be a railway for purposes of this Act, but does not include— (A) the Penang Hill Railway; (B) 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; and (C) such other railways as may be prescribed;
Any person who, wilfully or negligently, diverts any stream or drain or, by any means causes water to flow on to a railway or, causes damage to a railway in any manner by water, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.
Any person who, having any contract for the supply to a licensed operator of bricks, ballast, timber, fuel, or any other material, or being
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employed in connection with the supply to the licensed operator of such material, negligently places or stacks the said material in an unsafe or careless manner or at less than such distance from the railway tracks as stipulated in the regulations made under subparagraph 252(1)(tb)(ii), so that the safety of passing railway trains or any person or goods in or upon such trains is endangered, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
goods
“goods” means goods or any burden of any description, but excludes luggage;