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New system being tested at border checkpoints. |
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Written by badhushah
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
PUTRAJAYA, 17 Aug (The Star) -- A paperless vehicle entry system is being tested at border check points in Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei.
Motorists applying for a vehicle entry permit will no longer need to fill in forms issued by the Customs Department as the function will go electronic from September.
They will only have to fill in their data on the Customs Department website, and a sticker will be issued to them at the Customs checkpoint upon online verification.
Customs director-general Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid said the motorists would get a personal identification number (PIN) when they registered online, which they had to key in when entering the checkpoints concerned.
He said the new e-vis (electronic vehicle information system) was being tested at entry points in Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei.
About 3,000 vehicles crossed the four entry points between Brunei and Sarawak daily from Thursday to Sunday.
“Motorists can apply for the entry permit from their homes. This way, the process will take less than a minute at the checkpoints, compared to the longer time needed for manual registration,” he told reporters after Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen opened the department’s two galleries here and launched its books titled Gold Collar Workers and Customs Moving Forward.
The director-general said the new system would be implemented in Sarawak in two weeks. He added that the entry point into Singapore would be the last to use the e-vis as about 35,000 vehicles crossed the causeway daily. |
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