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s 10 Apology in mitigation of damages
(1) In any action for defamation the defendant may (after notice in writing of his intention to do so duly given to the plaintiff at the time of filing his written statement of his case) give in evidence, in mitigation of damages, that he made or offered an apology to the plaintiff for such defamation before the commencement of such action or as soon afterwards as he had an opportunity of doing so in case the action shall have been commenced before there was an opportunity of making or offering such apology.
(2) In an action for libel contained in any newspaper any defendant who has paid money into court under the provisions of any written law relating to civil procedure may state in mitigation of damages, in his written statement of his case, that such libel was inserted in such newspaper without actual malice and without gross negligence and that, before the commencement of the action or at the earliest opportunity afterwards, he inserted or offered to insert in such newspaper a full apology for the said libel, or, if the newspaper
in which the said libel appeared should be ordinarily published at intervals exceeding one week, had offered to publish the said apology in any newspaper to be selected by the plaintiff in such action.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Dalam mana-mana tindakan kerana fitnah, defendan (selepas notis bertulis mengenai niatnya untuk berbuat sedemikian diberi dengan sewajarnya kepada plaintif pada masa pemfailan pernyataan bertulis mengenai kesnya) boleh memberi dalam
[S. 10-11] keterangan, dalam pengurangan ganti rugi, bahawa dia kepada plaintif bagi fitnah tersebut sebelum dimulakan tindakan tersebut atau sebaik sahaja selepas itu yang dia mempunyai peluang untuk berbuat sedemikian sekiranya tindakan sepatutnya telah dimulakan
(2) Dalam sesuatu tindakan kerana libel yang terkandung dalam mana-mana suratkhabar, seseorang defendan yang telah membayar wang ke dalam mahkamah di bawah peruntukan-peruntukan manamana undang-undang bertulis berhubungan dengan prosedur sivil boleh menyatakan dalam pengurangan gantı rugı, dalam pernyataan bertulis kesnya, bahawa lıbel tersebut telah dimasukkan ke dalam suratkhabar itu tanpa niat-jahat sebenarnya dan tanpa kecuaian melampau dan bahawa, sebelum dimulakan tindakan itu atau pada peluang terawal selepasnya, dia memasukkan atau menawarkan untuk dimasukkan ke suratkhabar itu suatu permintaan maaf sepenuhnya bagi libel itu, atau, jika suratkhabar di dalam mana libei itu terdapat patut pada bıasany diterbitkan pada lat tempoh melebihi satu minggu telah menawarkan untuk diterbitkan permintaan maaf tersebut dalam mana-mana suratkhabar yang dipilih oleh plaintif dalam tindakan itu.
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).
