00:00The Road Transport Department has already started issuing summonses to Singapore-registered
00:06vehicles entering the country without a valid vehicle entry permit from midnight on Tuesday.
00:12More than a dozen summonses of 300 ringgit have been issued since the VEP ruling took
00:18effect on July 1.
00:20The Department's Director General, Datuk Aedi Fadli Ramli, said the enforcement period was
00:26conducted following an extensive awareness campaign.
00:30He adds, if a Singaporean vehicle enters Malaysia without registering or activating its VEP,
00:36a summons will be issued and they must pay immediately before leaving the country.
00:40Mobile counters have also been set up at checkpoints to manage the situation, allowing motorists
00:45to settle their fines and activate their VEP tags on the spot.
00:50Aedi Fadli told reporters during a special VEP operation at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar
00:56Customs Immigration and Quarantine Complex in Johor Bahru.
01:00As of June 29, over 206,000 private vehicles and 3,765 company vehicles have activated their
01:08VEP tags.
01:09However, 42,416 tags remain inactive, prompting this enforcement drive.
01:15In the stand, the
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