(1) The Director General and any police officer may detain any person found in any aboriginal area, aboriginal reserve or aboriginal inhabited place whose activities he has reason to believe are detrimental to the welfare of any aborigine or any aboriginal community and shall remove any such person from the area, reserve or place within seven days from the date of detaining him.
(2) The Director General or any police officer who detains or removes any person in accordance with subsection (1) shall as soon as possible report all the circumstances in writing to the Minister.
Malay text (authoritative)
Pengusiran orang yang tidak diingini
(1) Ketua Pengarah dan mana-mana pegawai polis boleh menahan mana-mana orang yang dijumpai di dalam mana-mana kawasan orang asli, rizab orang asli atau mana-mana tempat yang
diduduki orang asli jika dia ada sebab bagi mempercayai bahawa aktiviti orang itu memudaratkan kebajikan mana-mana orang asli atau mana-mana masyarakat orang asli dan hendaklah memindahkan orang itu dari kawasan, rizab atau tempat itu dalam tempoh tujuh hari dari tarikh dia ditahan.
(2) Ketua Pengarah atau mana-mana pegawai polis yang menahan atau memindahkan mana-mana orang mengikut subseksyen (1) hendaklah dengan seberapa segera yang mungkin melaporkan segala hal keadaan itu secara bertulis kepada Menteri.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
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).
