Section 6
Prohibition of motor vehicles not complying with rules
It shall not be lawful to use a motor vehicle which does not comply with the rules as to construction, weight, equipment, use and age applicable to the class or description of motor vehicle to which such motor vehicle belongs:
Provided that the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, authorize (subject to such restrictions and conditions as may be specified in the notification) the use of special motor vehicles, or special types of motor vehicles, which are constructed either for special purposes or for tests or trials and of new or improved types of motor vehicles, whether wheeled or wheelless.
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(2)
The Minister may revoke, vary or amend any notification made under this section.
(3)
Subject to this section, it shall not be lawful to sell or supply or to offer to sell or supply, a motor vehicle for delivery in such a condition that the use thereof in that condition would be unlawful by virtue of this section.
(4)
Subject to this section, it shall not be lawful to alter a motor vehicle so as to render its condition such that the use thereof in that condition would be unlawful by virtue of this section.
(5)
If a motor vehicle is used, sold or supplied or offered for sale or altered in contravention of this section, any person who so uses the motor vehicle or causes or permits it to be so used and any person who so sells or supplies or offers for sale or alters such motor vehicle or causes or permits it to be sold, supplied for sale or altered shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that the person shall not be convicted of an offence under this subsection in respect of the sale, supply, offer for sale or alteration of a motor vehicle if he proves that it was sold, supplied, offered for sale or altered, as the case may be, for export from
Malaysia or that he had reasonable cause to believe that the motor vehicle would not be used in Malaysia or would not be so used until it had been put into a condition in which it might lawfully be so used and it was a condition of such sale, supply, offer for sale or alteration that such motor vehicle would not be so used until it had been put into a condition in which it might lawfully be used under this section.
Registration of Motor Vehicles