Land Public Transport Act 2010 · Updated to 1 Jul 2025 · Part I · Preliminary
2. Interpretation
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“this Act” includes any subsidiary legislation made under this Act;
“luggage” means such articles of personal use and convenience as are usually carried by passengers but does not, except in the case of commercial travellers, include articles which are carried for the purpose of business, trade or profit;
“goods” means goods or any burden of any description, but excludes luggage;
“area congestion pricing charge” means any direct charge specifically imposed for the use of roads in connection with any area congestion pricing scheme;
“road” has the meaning assigned to it in the Road Transport Act 1987
[Act 333];
“rate” includes any fare, freight, charge or other payment for the transport of any passenger or his luggage, or goods;
“class” includes type or category;
“vehicle” has the meaning assigned to it in the Road Transport
Act 1987;
“goods vehicle” means—
any motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods or a trailer so constructed or adapted; or
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any motor vehicle or a trailer not so constructed or adapted when used for the carriage of goods solely or in addition to passengers, and includes a p-hailing vehicle;
“motor vehicle” has the meaning assigned to it in the Road Transport
Act 1987;
“p-hailing vehicle” means a motor vehicle used for the carriage of goods on any journey in consideration of a freight for each of the goods, in which the arrangement, booking or transaction, and the freight for such journey are facilitated through an electronic mobile application provided by an intermediation business;
“tourism vehicle” means a motor vehicle categorised under any of the classes described in the Second Schedule;
“public service vehicle” means a motor vehicle categorised under any of the classes described in the First Schedule;
“relevant vehicle” means—
each public service vehicle of a class of public service vehicles used to operate or provide a public service vehicle service as specified in the operator’s licence issued under
Chapter 1 of Part III;
each goods vehicle of a class of goods vehicles used to operate or provide a goods vehicle service as specified in the operator’s licence issued under Chapter 3 of Part III; and
each tourism vehicle identified in the licence issued under
Chapter 2 of Part III;
“railway” means any kind of railway for the public carriage of passengers or goods or both, or any portion thereof, and includes—
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all rails, beams, cables, sidings, or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway;
all rolling-stock used for the purposes of traffic;
in so far as the context allows, a railway under construction by or for any railway company; and
any guided system or guided system of a class prescribed to be a railway for purposes of this Act, but does not include—
the Penang Hill Railway;
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
such other railways as may be prescribed;
“Director General of Land Public Transport” means the Director
General in charge of land public transport;
“Director General of Road Transport” means the Director General for road transport appointed under section 3 of the Road Transport Act 1987, and includes a Deputy Director General, Director and Deputy
Director;
“conductor” means—
a person authorized under this Act to act as a conductor of a railway; or
a person licensed under the Road Transport Act 1987 to act as a conductor of a public service vehicle;
“Fund” means the Federal Consolidated Fund;
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“parking” means the bringing of a motor vehicle to a stationary position and causing it to wait for any purpose other than that of immediately taking up or setting down persons, goods or luggage;
“prescribe” means to prescribe by way of regulations;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for transport;
“person” includes an individual person, company, partnership, and any other corporate and unincorporate body of persons;
“railway official” means any person employed by or on behalf of any railway company that is a licensed operator, to perform any function in connection with a railway;
“land public transport officer” means any person appointed to be a land public transport officer under section 215A;
“road transport officer” means any person appointed to be a road transport officer under the Road Transport Act 1987;
“police officer” includes an extra police officer, a volunteer reserve police officer or an auxiliary police officer appointed under the
Police Act 1967 [Act 344];
“tourist” has the meaning assigned to it in the Tourism Industry Act 1992 [Act 482];
“driver” means the person for the time being driving a relevant vehicle or railway, as the case may be, and in the case of a stationary relevant vehicle or railway, includes the person for the time being responsible for the driving of the relevant vehicle or railway;
“tourist guide” has the meaning assigned to it in the Tourism Industry
Act 1992;
“licensee” means the holder of a licence issued under Chapter 2 of
Part III;
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“intermediation business licensee” means the holder of a licence issued under Chapter 2A of Part II;
“terminal licensee” means the holder of a licence issued under
Chapter 2 of Part II;
“owner”—
in relation to a motor vehicle registered or deemed to be registered under the Road Transport Act 1987, means the registered owner of such vehicle; and
in relation to any other motor vehicle, means the person in possession of or using or having the use of the motor vehicle;
“land public transport” means the transport on land by means of land public passenger transport and land public freight transport, and includes land public transport services, terminals, facilities, networks, systems, operations and other services associated with such transport or land public transport services;
“land public freight transport” means the carriage of goods on land by means of a goods vehicle or railway;
“land public passenger transport” means the carriage of passengers, including their luggage, on land by means of a public service vehicle, tourism vehicle or railway;
“licensed operator” means—
a holder of an operator’s licence issued under Chapter 1 of
Part III;
a holder of an operator’s licence issued under Chapter 3 of
Part III; or
a holder of an operator’s licence issued under Part IV;
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“tourism enterprise” has the meaning assigned to in the Tourism
Industry Act 1992;
“Administrator” has the same meaning as assigned to “Land
Administrator” by section 5 of the *National Land Code 1965
[Act 56/1965];
“passenger”—
in relation to a person carried on a public service vehicle, does not include the driver or conductor or any other employee of the licensed operator duly authorized to examine the payment of fares in pursuance of his duties;
in relation to a tourist carried on a tourism vehicle, does not include the driver or tourist guide;
in relation to a person carried on a railway, does not include the driver or conductor or any other employee of the licensed operator duly authorized to examine the payment of fares in pursuance of his duties; or
in relation to a person carried on a goods vehicle, does not include the driver or any attendant required by law to be carried on the vehicle;
“fare stage”, in relation to a route authorized in an operator’s licence for a public service vehicle service, means any division of such route for the purpose of arranging a schedule of fares;
“goods vehicle service” means—
the carriage of goods for any third party by means of a goods vehicle for hire or reward; or
the carriage of goods for any third party or the carriage of own goods by means of a goods vehicle in connection with a trade or business;
*NOTE—The National Land Code 1965 was revised and renumbered as the National Land Code
(Revised-2020) Act 828 with effect from 15 October 2020.
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“tourism vehicle service” means the carriage of tourists by means of a tourism vehicle in consideration of a payment which has no fare stages;
“public service vehicle service” means the carriage of passengers by means of one or more public service vehicles of the same class or different classes, whether for hire or reward or for any other valuable consideration or money’s worth or otherwise;
“railway service” means the carriage of passengers or goods or both by means of a railway;
“land public transport service” means—
the carriage of passengers by means of land public passenger transport; and
the carriage of goods by means of land public freight transport;
“tourism vehicle business” means the business of operating or letting out for hire a tourism vehicle for the conveyance of tourists;
“intermediation business” means the business of facilitating arrangements, bookings or transactions for the provision of land public transport services as specified in the Third Schedule whether for any valuable consideration or money’s worth or otherwise;
“local authority” has the meaning assigned to it in the Local
Government Act 1976 [Act 171] and the Federal Territory of Putrajaya
(Modification of the Local Government Act 1976) Order 2002
[P.U. (A) 142/2002];
“appropriate authority” has the meaning assigned to it in section 67
of the Road Transport Act 1987;
“railway premises” means all premises under the control of or occupied or used by a railway company that is a licensed operator;
“railway reserve” means—
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all lands duly reserved, whether before or after the commencement of the Railways Act 1991 [Act 463], for the purposes of the Federated Malay States Railways or the
Johore State Railway or Keretapi Tanah Melayu under the provisions of section 62 of the *National Land Code 1965
or under the corresponding provisions of any previous land law as defined in the *National Land Code 1965; and
all lands deemed to be railway reserves under the provisions of section 16 or 17 of the repealed Railway Ordinance 1948
[M.U. Ord. 8/1948];
“railway scheme” means a scheme for the construction of any railway deposited with the Director General of Land Public Transport pursuant to Part IV;
“area congestion pricing scheme” means a scheme implemented in a designated area, which aims to reduce traffic congestion or related adverse environmental impact, or both, by imposing a prescribed area congestion pricing charge on the users of roads in such area;
“rolling-stock” includes tenders, motors, coaches, trains, wagons, trucks, trolleys, carriages of any kind and locomotive and other kinds of engine used on a railway;
“company”
has the meaning assigned to it in the
**Companies Act 1965 [Act 125];
“railway company” includes any person or persons, who are the owners or lessees of a railway or parties to an agreement for working a railway;
“fare” includes all sums received or receivable and all sums charged or chargeable for the conveyance of passengers;
*NOTE—The National Land Code 1965 was revised and renumbered as the National Land Code
(Revised-2020) Act 828 with effect from 15 October 2020.
**NOTE—The Companies Act 1965 [Act 125] has since been repealed by the Companies Act 2016
[Act 777] which come into force on 31 January 2017–see subsection 620(1) of Act 777.
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“freight” includes all sums received or receivable and all sums charged or chargeable for the transport of goods;
“appointed date” means the date on which this Act or parts of this
Act come into operation;
“terminal” means—
a single or multi-modal station and transport hub dedicated to land public transport or the part or portion thereof relating to land public transport;
a service counter or ticket counter relating to land public transport; or
a container depot for storage of containers used for import or export;
“land public transport laws” means this Act and the Road Transport
Act 1987, and includes any subsidiary legislation made under these laws.