Minor Offences Act 1955 s 2
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s 2 Interpretation
(1) In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—
“cattle” includes bulls, cows, bullocks and buffaloes;
“Chief Police Officer” means the Chief Police Officer of a State;
“horse” includes mules, ponies and asses;
“local force” includes any force raised and maintained in Malaysia under the provisions of any written law;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with responsibility for the police;
“place of public resort” means any place licensed under any written law in force in Malaysia relating to theatres and includes an amusement park;
“public footway” means any footway made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot passengers over which the public have a right of way;
“public road” includes every road, street, bridge, passage, footway or square over which the public have a right of way; and the expression “in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road and all places within ten yards of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;
“vehicle” includes any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise;
“visiting force” means any visiting force lawfully present in Malaysia under any written law for the time being in force relating to visiting forces;
“Peninsular Malaysia” has the meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388], and includes the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.
(2) The arcade of any house, where such arcade abuts on any street, notwithstanding any rights of property in the owner of such house, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a public footway.
ORDERS AS TO FIREWORKS
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Dalam Akta ini melainkan jika konteksnya Tafsiran. menghendaki makna yang lain— 29715.4. "angkatan tentera pelawat" ertinya mana-mana P.U. 297/59. angkatan tentera pelawat yang berada dengan sah di Malaysia di bawah mana-mana undang-undang bertulis yang pada masa itu berkuatkuasa berhubungan dengan angkatan tentera pelawat; "angkatan tentera tempatan" termasuklah manaangkatan tentera ditubuh dan disenggarakan dalam Malaysia di bawah peruntukanperuntukan mana-mana undang-undang bertulis; "jalan awam" termasuklah tiap-tiap jalan, lebuh, jambatan, laluan, kaki lima atau medan di mana orang ramai mempunyai hak lalu-lalang; dan ungkapan "di atas atau berdekatan dengan mana-mana jalan awam" termasuklah semua tempat di jalan awam dan semua
23/67. IS.2-3] tidak dasimkan ungan pelkesala dar adasema yane daripada jalan oleh tembuk atau selainnya; "kenderaan" termasuklah mana-mana kenderaan sama ada menggunakan kuasa jentera atau selainnya; "Ketua Pegawai Polis" ertinya Ketua Pegawai Polis sesuatu Negeri; "kuda" termasuklah baghal, kuda kecil dan keldai; "lembu" termasuklah lembu jantan, lembu, lembu kembiri dan kerbau; "Malaysia Barat" mempunyai erti yang diberikan ermasuklad Wilayak Perss Atuan Kiata Lumpuda "Menteri" ertinya Menteri yang bertanggungjawab bagi pasukan polis; '"kaki lima awam" ertinya mana-mana kaki lima yang dibuat disediakan untuk kegunaan atau kemudahan orang yang berjalan kaki di mana orang ramai mempunyai hak lalu-lalang; "tempat peranginan awam" ertinya mana-mana tempat yang dilesenkan di bawah mana-mana undangundang bertulis yang berkuatkuasa di Malaysia berhubungan dengan panggung wayang dan termasuklah taman hiburan.
(2) Arked mana-mana rumah, jika arked itu mempünyai sempadan yang sama dengan mana-mana lebuh, walau apa pun hak mengenai harta pemunya terhadap rumah tersebut, bagi maksud Akta ini, hendaklah disifatkan sebagai kaki lima awam. Larangan ke atas pemasangan bunga api. PERINTAH MENGENAI BUNGA API
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Text as at 1 January 2006 (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).
