(1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 1953.
(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia.
Act 345
Criminal Justice Act 1953
Akta keadilan jenayah 1953
An Act relating to penal servitude, methods of imprisonment and whipping; and for purposes connected therewith.
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(1) No person shall be sentenced by a court to penal servitude; and every law conferring power on a court to pass a sentence of penal servitude in any case shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term of penal servitude for which a sentence could have been passed in that case immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(2) No person shall be sentenced by a court to rigorous imprisonment or to simple imprisonment; and every law conferring power on a court to pass a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description, shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the term for which a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description could have been passed in that case immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(3) Any person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was undergoing or liable to undergo a term of penal servitude under a sentence passed by any court or as a commuted punishment for an offence for which he was sentenced to death, shall be treated thereafter as if he had been sentenced to, or were undergoing or liable to undergo, imprisonment and not penal servitude for that term.
(4) Any person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was undergoing or liable to undergo a term of rigorous imprisonment or of simple imprisonment under a sentence passed by any court or as a commuted punishment for an offence for which he was sentenced to death, shall be treated thereafter as if he had been sentenced to, or were undergoing or liable to undergo, imprisonment and not rigorous imprisonment or simple imprisonment for that term.
Where any person is treated as having been sentenced or is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for life, such sentence shall be deemed for all purposes to be a sentence of imprisonment for twenty years.
No person shall be sentenced by a court to whipping with a cat-oβ-nine tails; and every law conferring power on a court to pass a sentence of whipping with a cat-oβ-nine tails, or whipping, shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of whipping with a rattan.
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Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).