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Banishment Act s 6

Banishment Act s 6

This legislation has been repealed. Do not cite it as law in force.

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

s 6

(1) Subject to this Act a banishment order may be Execution of carried into execution at any time after the expiration of banishment fourteen days from the date of service of a copy thereof order. under section 5 (3), upon the issue by the Minister of a warrant of execution which shall be in Form C of the Schedule and shall be signed by the Minister. (2) Upon receiving the warrant of execution of a banishment order made against any person, the officer-in-charge of the prison in which the person is confined shall inform the person of the period for which he is banished and warn him that he is forbidden by law to return to Malaysia or to enter or reside in Malaysia, except as specially provided in the banishment order. (3) As soon as possible after receiving the warrant of execution of a banishment order against any person, the officer-in-charge of the prison in which the person is confined or some prison officer appointed by that officer in that behalf shall hand the person ordered to be banished to a senior police officer appointed by the Inspector-General of Police țo receive him, and the person shali thereupon be conveyed in the custody of that or some other senior police officer and placed on such means of transport as may be expedient for conveyance to the country of which he is a citizen or to such other place as may be stated in the warrant. (4) Any banished person who is in the custody of a senior police officer under subsection (3) may be received into and detained in any prison or other suitable place in Malaysia until he can be placed on some means of transport for conveyance in accordance with that subsection.

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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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