Starting July 1, foreign vehicle owners from Singapore who haven’t registered or activated their Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) will be slapped with a summons.
According to Harian Metro, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said that if a privately owned vehicle isn’t registered under the VEP, the owner will be fined and must pay up before leaving Malaysia.
Customs, immigration and quarantine (ciq) complex, sultan iskandar building (bsi)
Vehicles with unpaid summonses aren’t allowed to leave M’sia
Loke said that for company-owned private vehicles that haven’t registered yet, they’ll just get a reminder notice and will still be allowed to leave the country.
“These vehicles were already given a few months to sort out the pre-registration, so if they still haven’t done it, they’ll get a summons.”
He added that any vehicles with unpaid summonses won’t be allowed to leave Malaysia, and the owners will have to make payment either at a JPJ office or at the designated cashless counters.
The enforcement is being rolled out in phases
The VEP enforcement at the Malaysia-Singapore land border started on October 1, 2024, and it’s being rolled out in stages by first giving reminder notices to Singapore vehicles that haven’t registered yet.
It applies at both entry points in Johor: the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complexes at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) on the Johor Causeway and Bangunan Sultan Abu Bakar at the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link.
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