Penalties for maiming, etc.
(1) Any person who—
(a) maims or injures any person liable to undergo national service training; or
(b) administers any drug or other substance to any such person,
with intent in either case to produce in that person any disability or apparent disability and thereby to affect his suitability or apparent suitability to be called up for national service training either generally or in any particular capacity, commits an offence.
(2) Any person who knowingly makes any false statement as to the present or past state of health of any person liable to undergo national service training with intent that such person shall be treated as unsuitable for national service training, commits an offence.
(3) Any person liable to undergo national service training who maims or injures himself, or administers to himself any drug or other substance, with intent in either case to produce in himself any disability and thereby to affect his suitability or apparent suitability for national service training, either generally or in any particular capacity, commits an offence.
(4) Any person convicted of an offence under this section shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
False statements and forgery
Any person who—
(a) in giving information for the purposes of this Act, knowingly or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular; or
(b) with intent to deceive—
(i) forges or uses, or lends to or allows to be used by any other person, any document under this Act; or
(ii) makes or has in his possession any document closely resembling any document under this Act,
commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
Attempts and abetment
Any person who attempts to commit or abets the commission of any offence under this Act shall on conviction be liable to the punishment provided for such offence.
Evidence on prosecution
Where for the purpose of the prosecution of any person for an offence under this Act by reason of his failure to comply with the notification to present himself for national service training under subsection 17(2) it is necessary to show that he is or was at any particular time liable to present himself for national service training or that he is or was within particular limits of age, he shall be presumed to be, or to have been, at that time so liable or within those limits of age, unless the contrary is proved.
General provisions as to offence
(1) Any person who commits an offence against this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.
(2) It shall be a defence against a prosecution for an offence under this Act for the accused to prove that he was prevented from complying with the relevant provisions of this Act by circumstances beyond his control.
Regulations
Without prejudice to subsection 20(5), the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may make regulations to prescribe anything which under this Act may be prescribed and generally for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
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).
