Short title, commencement and application
(1) This Act may be cited as the Offences relating to Awards Act 2017. (2) This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette. (3) This Act and its subsidiary legislation shall apply both within and outside Malaysia.
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “foreign award” means a valid Order, Decoration and Medal awarded by a Head of State in the First Schedule; “unrecognized foreign award” means a foreign award other than those awarded by a Head of State in the First Schedule; “unrecognized award” means an award purporting to be a Yang di-Pertuan Agong award conferred by any person other than the Yang di-Pertuan Agong; “Yang di-Pertuan Agong award” means a valid Order, Decoration and Medal instituted by the statutes of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for the purposes of the Federation and the Federal Territories; “investiture” means the conferment of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong award on a particular person by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong; “insignia” means― (a) the collar, riband, badge of the order, badge of the collar, star of the order and badge of the neck; (b) the ribbon, badge and emblem of the decoration; or (c) the ribbon and medal; “Ruler” and “Yang di-Pertua Negeri” have the meanings assigned to them in Clause (2) of Article 160 of the Federal Constitution; “gratification” has the meaning assigned to it in section 3 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act [Act 694].
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Text as at 26 June 2024 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated. Read the official text ↗
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).