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Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board Act 1987 s 55

Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board Act 1987 s 55

s 55 Avoidance of contracts

Any contract for the conveyance of a passenger in a public service vehicle shall, so far as it purports to negative or to restrict the liability of any person in respect of any claim which might otherwise be lawfully made against that person in respect of the death of or bodily injury to the passenger while being carried in, entering or alighting from the authorized vehicle or purports to impose any condition with respect to the enforcement of any such liability, be void.

Malay text (authoritative)

Menjadikan kontrak tidak sah

Apa-apa kontrak untuk membawa seorang penumpang dalam suatu kenderaan perkhidmatan awam, setakat mana ia bertujuan untuk menyangkal atau mengehadkan liabiliti mana-mana orang berkenaan dengan apa-apa tuntutan yang mungkin sebaliknya dibuat secara sah terhadap orang itu berkenaan dengan kematian, atau kecederaan badan, kepada penumpang semasa dibawa di dalam, memasuki atau turun daripada kenderaan dibenarkan, atau bertujuan untuk mengenakan apa-apa syarat berkenaan dengan penguatkuasaan apa-apa liabiliti tersebut adalah tidak sah.

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Find Act 334 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 15 October 2023 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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