Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Enactment, unless the context otherwise requires –
“Director” means the Director of Railways referred in section 3;
“fare” includes all sums received or receivable and all sums charged or chargeable for the conveyance of passengers;
“freight” includes all sums received or receivable and all sums charged or chargeable for the transport of goods;
“goods” includes luggage and other movable property of any description, and live or dead animal and animal product;
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“Government
Entity”
means the
Federal
Government, any ministry, department, office, agency, authority, commission, committee, board, council or other body, corporate or unincorporate, of the Federal Government or the
State Government, whether established under written law or otherwise;
“infectious disease” has the same meaning assigned to it under section 2 of the
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342);
“licensed operator” means a holder of an operator’s licence issued under section 26;
“luggage” or “passenger’s 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;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for railways in
Sabah;
“property” means any movable or immovable property, and includes –
(a)
any right, interest, title, claim, chose-in-action, power, privilege, whether present or future and whether vested or contingent, in relation to any property, or which is otherwise of value;
(b)
any conveyance executed for conveying, assigning, appointing, surrendering, or otherwise transferring or disposing of immovable property whereof the person executing the conveyance is proprietor or possessed or wherein he is entitled to a contingent right, either for his whole interest or for any less interest;
(c)
any monetary instrument;
(d)
any other instrument or securities;
(e)
any business; and
(f)
any other tangible or intangible property;
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“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 purpose of traffic;
(c)
in so far as the context allows, a railway under construction by railway company;
(d)
any railway used or, in the case of a railway to be constructed, intended to be used, by any person for the carriage of goods within any premises occupied by such person; and
(e)
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;
“railway company” includes any person or persons, whether incorporated or not, who are the owners or lessees of a railway or parties to an agreement for working of a railway;
“railway official” means any person employed by or on behalf of the Director to perform any function in connection with a railway;
“railway premises” means all premises under the control of a occupied or used by the Sabah State Railway Department or any licensed operator;
“railway reserves” means all lands duly reserved under the Sabah Land
Ordinance (Cap. 68);
‘rate” includes any fare, freight, charge or other payment for the transport of any passenger or goods;
“rolling-stock” includes tenders, motors, coaches, wagons, trucks, trolleys, carriage of any kind and locomotive and other kinds of engine used on a railway;
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“warehouse means any building or place provided or used by the Sabah State
Railway Department or a licensed operator for the purpose of storing goods;
and when it is more convenient to the Sabah State Railway Department or a licensed operator that the goods to be warehoused should remain in the trucks, those trucks when placed in a siding shall, for the purposes of this Enactment, be deemed to be a warehouse.