s 21 Exemption of aircraft and parts thereof from seizure on patent claims
(1) Any lawful entry into Malaysia or any lawful transit across Malaysia, with or without landings, of an aircraft to which this section applies shall not entail any seizure or detention of the aircraft or any proceedings being brought against the owner or operator of it any other interference with it by or on behalf of any person in Malaysia on the ground that the construction, mechanism, parts, accessories or operation of the aircraft is or are an infringement of any patent, design or model. (2) The importation into, and storage in, Malaysia of spare parts and spare equipment for an aircraft to which this section applies and the use and installation of it in the repair of such an aircraft shall not entail any seizure or detention of the aircraft or of the spare parts or spare equipment or any proceedings being brought against the owner or operator of the aircraft or the owner of the spare parts or spare equipment or any other interference with the aircraft by or on behalf of any person in Malaysia on the ground that the spare parts or spare equipment or their installation are or is an infringement of any patent, design or model: Provided that this subsection shall not apply in relation to any spare parts or spare equipment which are sold or distributed in Malaysia or are exported from Malaysia for sale or distribution. (3) This section shall apply to an aircraft, other than an aircraft used in military, customs or police service, registered in any country or territory in the case of which there is for the time being in force a declaration, made by the Minister and published in the Gazette, with a view to the fulfilment of the Chicago Convention to which this section relates, that the benefits of those provisions apply to that country or territory, and to such other aircraft as the Minister may specify in any such declaration.