Section 2

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

“cattle” includes bulls, cows, bullocks and buffaloes;

“Chief Police Officer” means the Chief Police Officer of a

State;

“horse” includes mules, ponies and asses;

“local force” includes any force raised and maintained in Malaysia under the provisions of any written law;

“Minister” means the Minister charged with responsibility for the police;

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“place of public resort” means any place licensed under any written law in force in Malaysia relating to theatres and includes an amusement park;

“public footway” means any footway made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot passengers over which the public have a right of way;

“public road” includes every road, street, bridge, passage, footway or square over which the public have a right of way; and the expression “in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road and all places within ten yards of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;

“vehicle” includes any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise;

“visiting force” means any visiting force lawfully present in

Malaysia under any written law for the time being in force relating to visiting forces;

“Peninsular Malaysia” has the meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388], and includes the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.

The arcade of any house, where such arcade abuts on any street, notwithstanding any rights of property in the owner of such house, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a public footway.

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