Road Transport Act 1987 · Updated to 15 Oct 2023 · Part III · Roads
72. Provision of parking places and stands
Feedback & supportAny appropriate authority or public body may, by order published in the Gazette, provide suitable parking places for vehicles or stands for public service vehicles or goods vehicles in accordance with this Act, and for that purpose may—
utilize any lands which may lawfully be acquired or appropriated for the purpose; or
by such order authorize the use as a parking place or stands for public service vehicles or goods vehicles of any part of a road:
Provided that—
no such order shall authorize the use of any part of a road so as to unreasonably prevent access to any premises adjoining the road, or the use of the road by any person entitled to the use thereof, or so as to be a nuisance;
an order under this section relating to a Federal road or affecting public service vehicles or goods vehicles shall not be made without the concurrence of the Minister.
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The appropriate authority or public body may take all such steps as may be necessary to adapt for use as a parking place or stands for public service vehicles or goods vehicles any land not being part of a road which may be conveniently utilised for that purpose.
public body
“public body” means a body declared by the Minister to be a public body;
An order under subsection (1) may prescribe—
prescribe
“prescribe”, where no mode is mentioned, means to prescribe by rules made under this Act;
the vehicles or class of vehicles which may use such parking place or stand and the period during which and the conditions subject to which such parking place or stand may be used; and
the charge, if any, to be made for the use of such parking place.
Where any charge for the use of such parking place is to be made or intended to be made pursuant to any order under this section, such order shall specify—
the parking place designated for the leaving of vehicles;
and
the times (whether at all times or between such hours)
during which vehicles may be parked in a parking place, and may further make provision in a parking place for any of the following matters:
the number and dimension of the spaces to be provided;
the positions in which such vehicles shall be driven in or taken out;
the manner in which such vehicles shall be driven in or taken out;
the prohibition or restriction of waiting therein, whether in the positions aforesaid or elsewhere, of other vehicles;
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the positions in which other vehicles permitted by the order to wait or for any purpose specified in the order shall wait;
the charges to be levied in respect of the use and the manner of its collection;
the removal thereform and the safe custody of any vehicle in respect of which there has been a contravention of or non-compliance with the provisions of the order or any rules made under this Act;
the erection and installation of any apparatus of a type or design, either generally or specially approved by the
Minister (which shall be described as a “parking meter”);
the prohibition or restriction therein of the carrying on of trades or other activities or the doing of any other thing;
the indication of such parking place by means of traffic signs in accordance with section 77:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring spaces of sufficient size to be provided in any parking place to accommodate any particular vehicle.
A notice stating the substance of the order and the charge prescribed thereby shall be erected and maintained by the appropriate authority at or near such parking place or stand.
parking place
“parking place” means a place set apart as a place at which motor vehicles or any specified class or description of motor vehicles may be parked;
It shall not be lawful for the driver of any vehicle or any person employed in connection therewith to ply for hire or accept passengers for hire or reward while any vehicle is within a parking place which has not also been gazetted as a stand for public service vehicles and any person who acts in contravention of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence.
driver
“driver” means the person for the time being driving a motor vehicle and, in the case of a stationary motor vehicle, includes the person for the time being responsible for the driving of the motor vehicle;
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road
“road” means— (a) any public road and any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges, tunnels, lay-bys, ferry facilities, interchanges, roundabouts, traffic islands, road dividers, all traffic lanes, acceleration lanes, deceleration lanes, side-tables, median strips, overpasses, underpasses, approaches, entrance and exit ramps, toll plazas, service areas, and other structures and fixtures to fully effect its use; (b) for the purposes of sections 70 and 85, also includes a road under construction; and (c) for the purpose of sections 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 45A, also includes a parking place;
If any person, without lawful excuse, contravenes or fails to comply with an order made under this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding three hundred ringgit.
The appropriate authority or public body shall not incur any liability in respect of any loss or damage to any vehicle or the fittings or contents of any vehicle parked in any parking place authorized or designated under this section.
vehicle
“vehicle” means a structure capable of moving or being moved or used for the conveyance of any person or thing and which maintains contact with the ground when in motion;