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FEDERAL ROADS ACT 1959

Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006

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FEDERAL ROADS ACT 1959

First enacted … ... ... ... ... … 1959 (Ord. No. 42 of

1959)

Revised … … … … … ... … 1989 (Act 376 w.e.f.

7 September 1989)

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Section

1. Short title and application

2. (Deleted)
3. Power to declare roads, etc., to be federal
4. Order to be laid before Dewan Rakyat
5. Saving

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Act 376

FEDERAL ROADS ACT 1959

An Act to provide for the declaration of federal roads, bridges,

ferries and other means of communication.

[Peninsular Malaysia—31 August 1957;

Sabah and Sarawak—1 April 1986,
P.U. (A) 227/1986]

Short title and application

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Federal Roads Act 1959.

(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia.

2. (Deleted).

Power to declare roads, etc., to be federal

3. The Minister may after consultation with the Government of

the State concerned, by order declare any road, bridge, ferry or
other means of communication in any State to be Federal.

Order to be laid before Dewan Rakyat

4. Any order under section 3 shall be published in the Gazette

and, as soon as possible thereafter, shall be laid before the Dewan
Rakyat; and if, at the next meeting of the Dewan Rakyat after any
such order is laid before it a resolution is passed annulling such
order or any part thereof, such order or such part thereof shall, but
without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done
thereunder, be void as from the date of notification in the Gazette
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5. The roads, bridges and ferries specified or referred to in the

declaration made by the High Commissioner on 14 August 1957,
in pursuance of Item 91 of the Second Schedule of the Federation
of Malaya Agreement 1948, and published as Legal Notification
339 of 1957, are hereby declared to be federal, and such declaration
shall, for the purpose of amendment, variation or revocation thereof,
be deemed to be an order duly made under sections 3 and 4.

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LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Amending law Short title In force from

Act A627 Federal Roads (Amendment) 13-09-1985

Act 1985

P.U. (A) 227/1986 Federal Roads Ordinance 01-04-1986

(Extension to Sabah and
Sarawak) Order 1986

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LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED

Section Amending authority In force from

2 Act A627 13-09-1985

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