Malaysia legislation
Section 53
Section 53
(2)
Any person carries upon the railway any dangerous of offensive goods or delivers for carriage any such goods without distinctly declaring the nature of the goods commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.
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(3)
Any railway official may refuse to carry any luggage or parcel that is suspected to contain goods of a dangerous or offensive nature, and may require the luggage or parcel to be opened.
(4)
In case any such luggage or parcel shall have been received by any railway official for the purposes of being carried on the railway, any railway official may stop the transit thereof until he shall be satisfied as to the nature of the contents of each luggage or parcel.
(5)
For any bulky or voluminous article, package or the like, being of a weight disproportionate to the cubic space occupied thereby, a freight charge may be made in excess of the actual weight thereof.
Persons suspected with an infectious disease not allowed to travel