This Act may be cited as the Statutory Declarations Act 1960.
Act 783
Statutory Declarations Act 1960
Akta akuan berkanun 1960
An Act to provide for the making and taking of statutory declarations and for purposes connected with it and incidental to it.
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Any Sessions Court Judge, Magistrate or Commissioner for Oaths, or, subject to section 4 of the Notaries Public Act 1959 [Act 115], any notary public appointed under the Notaries Public Act 1959, may take and receive the declaration of any person voluntarily making the declaration in Malay or English in the form in the Schedule.
Declarations made by virtue of this Act shall be deemed to be such declarations as are referred to in sections 199 and 200 of the Penal Code [Act 574].
A person making any declaration by virtue of this Act shall pay to the officer or Commissioner taking the declaration such fees as the Minister may prescribe by notification in the Gazette.
Any reference in any federal law in force in Sabah to the Statutory Declarations Ordinance of Sabah [Cap. 138] and any reference in any federal law in force in Sarawak to the Statutory Declarations Ordinance of Sarawak [Cap. 52] or to the Statutory Declarations Act 1835 [5 & 6 Wm. IV, C. 62], of the United Kingdom, shall be deemed to be a reference to this Act.
Schedule [Section 2]
In Malay
BORANG AKUAN
Saya,................................................................................dengan sesungguhnya dan sebenarnya mengaku bahawa .......................................................dan saya membuat akuan ini dengan kepercayaan bahawa akuan ini adalah benar, dan menurut kuasa peruntukan Akta Akuan Berkanun 1960.
Diperbuat dan dengan sesungguhnya diakui oleh yang tersebut namanya di atas.................................. di .............................................................................. di dalam Negeri ....................................................... pada ......................................................... , 20..........
Di hadapan saya,
...................................... (Tandatangan Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen, Majistret, Pesuruhjaya Sumpah atau notari awam)
In English
FORM OF DECLARATION
I, ....................................................................................................................... do solemnly and sincerely declare that............................................................. .......................................................................................................................... and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the declaration to be true, and by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1960.
Subscribed and solemnly declared by the abovenamed ....................................................................................... at ................................................................................... in the State of ............................................................... this .......................................................... , 20...............
Before me,
........................................................... (Signature of Sessions Court Judge, Magistrate, Commissioner for Oaths or notary public)
(Revisedβ2016) Particulars under paragraphs 7(ii) and (iii) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 [Act 1]
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Statutory Declarations Act 1960 [Act 783] (Laws of Malaysia, lom.agc.gov.my). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/my/act/act-783
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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).