From that date, motion shall be taken against any foreign motorcar with no VEP entering or entering Malaysia, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Anyone found guilty of the offense could face a superb of as much as 2,000 ringgit ($427) or imprisonment of as much as six months.
Registered vehicles shall be equipped with an RFID (RFID) tag, which costs 10 ringgit.
Loke said VEP has been implemented since 2019 but will not be enforced. The system was paused in 2020 as the federal government said it was ways to make it easier to put in the RFID tag.
Based on current data, Loke said there are roughly 70,000 motorized vehicles registered in Singapore with activated VEP tags. There are over 200,000 registered motorized vehicles which have not yet accomplished the installation and activation of their tags.
RFID tags, which uniquely discover each vehicle, will not be transferable.
Loke said the tags shall be sent to vehicle owners for installation. “If they previously had to come to Johor Bahru to repair the fault, now it will be sent to their address and they can repair it themselves as per the guidelines provided,” he said.
“The system is ready, we started registration in 2019, but we have not enforced it for five years. If we don’t enforce this, the system won’t be used.”
VEP will enable the government to track foreign vehicles entering and leaving the country, he said. “When they get out and if they have any summonses, they will have to settle them before they are allowed to leave.”
Currently, all foreign-registered cars entering Malaysia via the Johor route must pay a toll.
Singapore-registered vehicles must pay a toll of 20 ringgit to enter the Woodlands Causeway and Tuas Second Link checkpoints, that are among the many busiest on the planet. Motorcycles will not be subject to those fees.
