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Youth Societies and Youth Development Act 2007 s 97

Youth Societies and Youth Development Act 2007 s 97

s 97 Presumption of membership, etc., of youth society

(1) Where any documents, accounts, lists of members, seals, banners, symbols or other things relating to, or purporting to relate to, any youth society are found in the possession, custody or under the control of any person, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person is a member of such youth society, and such youth society shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, as has been in existence at the time such documents, accounts, lists of members, seals, banners, symbols or other things are so found. (2) Where any documents, accounts, lists of members, seals, banners, symbols or other things relating to, any youth society are found— (a) in the possession, custody or under the control of any person, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person assists in the management of such youth society; and (b) concealed in any premises it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the same are in the possession of the occupier of the premises. (3) When it appears to a court that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any place entered or searched under any lawful power conferred by or under this Act was immediately before or at the time of such entry, being used by or for the purposes of an unlawful youth society, any person found in such place at any time during such search or found leaving there from immediately before or at the time of such entry, shall unless he gives a satisfactory account of the reasons for his presence in the said place, be presumed to be a member of the unlawful youth society.

Malay text (authoritative)

Anggapan mengenai keanggotaan, dsb., pertubuhan belia

(1) Jika apa-apa dokumen, akaun, senarai anggota, meterai, sepanduk, simbol atau benda lain yang berhubungan dengan, atau yang berupa berhubung dengan mana-mana pertubuhan belia, didapati dimiliki, dijaga atau di bawah kawalan mana-mana orang, maka hendaklah dianggap, sehingga dibuktikan sebaliknya, bahawa orang itu adalah anggota pertubuhan belia itu dan pertubuhan belia itu hendaklah dianggap, sehingga dibuktikan sebaliknya, sebagai telah wujud pada masa dokumen, akaun, senarai anggota, meterai, sepanduk, simbol atau benda lain itu didapati. (2) Jika mana-mana dokumen, akaun, senarai anggota, meterai, sepanduk, simbol atau benda lain yang berhubungan dengan, mana-mana pertubuhan belia didapati— (a) ada di dalam milikan, jagaan atau di bawah kawalan mana-mana orang, maka hendaklah dianggap, sehingga dibuktikan sebaliknya, bahawa orang itu adalah membantu dalam pengurusan pertubuhan belia itu; dan (b) tersembunyi dalam mana-mana bangunan, maka hendaklah dianggap sehingga dibuktikan sebaliknya, bahawa yang tersebut itu dimiliki oleh penghuni bangunan itu. (3) Apabila Mahkamah mendapati bahawa ada sebab-sebab yang munasabah bagi mengesyaki bahawa apa-apa tempat yang dimasuki atau digeledah menurut kuasa yang sah diberikan oleh atau di bawah Akta ini, sebaik sahaja sebelum atau pada masa kemasukan itu, digunakan oleh atau bagi maksud suatu pertubuhan belia yang menyalahi undang-undang, mana-mana orang yang dijumpai di tempat tersebut pada masa penggeledahan itu atau yang didapati meninggalkan tempat itu sebaik sahaja sebelum atau pada masa kemasukan itu, hendaklah, melainkan jika ia memberi sebab yang munasabah ia berada di tempat tersebut dianggap sebagai seorang anggota pertubuhan belia yang menyalahi undang-undang.

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Text as at 1 November 2014 (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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