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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002 s 29

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy β€” section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 29 Custody of person in transit

(1) A person who is in custody in a prescribed foreign State and has consented to give evidence or assistance in relation to a criminal matter in another prescribed foreign State may be transported through Malaysia, in the custody of another person, to that other prescribed foreign State, if the first-mentioned prescribed foreign State gives prior notice of this to the Attorney General. (2) The person being transported through Malaysia in custody may, if an aircraft, vessel or train by which the person is being transported lands or calls or stops in Malaysia, be kept in the custody of such authorized officer as the Attorney General directs in writing until his transportation is continued. (3) Whereβ€” (a) a person is being held in custody pursuant to a direction under subsection (2); and (b) the person’s transportation is not, in the opinion of the Attorney General, continued within a reasonable time, the Attorney General may direct that the person be transported in custody to the prescribed foreign State from which the person was first transported, and such direction shall be sufficient authority for that person’s removal from Malaysia by such means as the Attorney General directs. (4) All costs and expenses incurred by Malaysia in respect of subsections (2) and (3) shall be reimbursed by the prescribed foreign State from which the person was first transported.

Malay text (authoritative)

(1) Orang yang dalam jagaan di suatu Negara asing yang ditetapkan dan yang telah bersetuju untuk memberikan keterangan atau bantuan berhubung dengan suatu perkara jenayah di suatu Negara asing yang ditetapkan yang lain boleh dibawa melalui Malaysia, dalam jagaan orang lain, ke Negara asing yang ditetapkan yang lain itu, jika Negara asing yang ditetapkan yang mula-mula disebut itu memberi notis terlebih dahulu mengenai perkara itu kepada Peguam Negara. (2) Orang yang dibawa melalui Malaysia dalam jagaan boleh, jika pesawat terbang, kenderaan air atau kereta api yang membawa orang itu mendarat atau berlabuh atau berhenti di Malaysia, ditahan dalam jagaan mana-mana pegawai diberi kuasa yang diarahkan oleh Peguam Negara secara bertulis sehingga perjalanannya diteruskan. (3) Jika- (a) seseorang yang ditahan dalam jagaan menurut suatu arahan di bawah subseksyen (2); dan (b) perjalanan orang itu, pada pendapat Peguam Negara, tidak diteruskan dalam tempoh masa yang munasabah, Peguam Negara boleh mengarahkan supaya orang itu dibawa dalam jagaan ke Negara asing yang ditetapkan yang darinya orang itu mula-mula dibawa, dan arahan sedemikian hendaklah menjadi kuasa yang mencukupi bagi pemindahan orang itu dari Malaysia dengan apa-apa cara sebagaimana yang diarahkan oleh Peguam Negara. (4) Segala kos dan perbelanjaan yang ditanggung oleh Malaysia berkenaan dengan subseksyen (2) dan (3) hendaklah dibayar balik oleh Negara asing yang ditetapkan yang darinya orang itu mulamula dibawa. Melarikan diri daripada jagaan semasa dalam perjalanan

Read this section in the full act β†’ Β· Open Part III β†’

Find Act 621 on lom.agc.gov.my β†—

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).

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