Land Public Transport Act 2010 · Updated to 1 Jul 2025 · Part X · Common Offences and Penalties
206. Penalty for fraud
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person
“person” includes an individual person, company, partnership, and any other corporate and unincorporate body of persons;
defrauds or attempts to defraud a licensed operator of a public service vehicle service or railway service, which requires fares to be paid in advance of the provision of such service—
public service vehicle
“public service vehicle” means a motor vehicle categorised under any of the classes described in the First Schedule;
by travelling or attempting to travel upon a public service vehicle or railway without having previously paid his fare;
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;
by riding in or upon a railway carriage of a higher class than that for which he has paid his fare; or
by continuing his journey in or upon any of the public service vehicles or railway carriages beyond the station for which he has paid his fare without having previously either paid the fare for the additional distance or obtained the sanction of the driver of the public service vehicle or station master or guard of the railway train;
knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at the station to which he has paid his fare to quit such public service vehicle or railway carriage;
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transfers or profits by the transfer of the return half of any ticket obtained by him; or
in any other manner whatsoever attempts to evade the payment of his fare, 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 for each offence.