Land Public Transport Act 2010 · Updated to 1 Jul 2025 · Chapter 8
130. Maliciously obstructing or attempting to obstruct a railway
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person
“person” includes an individual person, company, partnership, and any other corporate and unincorporate body of persons;
puts, throws or causes to fall against, upon or across a railway any wood, stone or other matter or thing;
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;
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takes up, removes, loosens, or displaces any rail, sleeper or other matter or thing appertaining to a railway;
turns, moves, unlocks or diverts any railway points or other machinery appertaining to a railway;
moves any part of the rolling-stock on a railway track or leaves the same on any part of a railway track;
makes, shows, hides or removes any signal or light upon or near a railway; or
does or causes to be done or attempts to do any other act or thing in relation to a railway, with intent, or with the knowledge that he is likely, to obstruct the working of the railway, or to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon the railway or goods carried on the railway, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years or to both.
goods
“goods” means goods or any burden of any description, but excludes luggage;