Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
of Land Public Transport Act 2010
“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—
(a)
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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(b)
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—
(a)
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;
(b)
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
(c)
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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(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;
“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)
a person authorized under this Act to act as a conductor of a railway; or
(b)
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