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The following is a list of acts of the Parliament of Malaysia by citation number. The list includes all principal laws of Malaysia enacted after 1969 and pre-1969 laws which have been revised by the Commissioner of Law Revision under the authority of the Revision of Laws Act 1968. Repealed acts and acts not yet in force are stricken through.
The dual system of law is provided in Article 121(1A) of the Constitution of Malaysia. Article 3 also provides that Islamic law is a state law matter with the exception for the Federal Territories of Malaysia. [1] Islamic law refers to sharia law, and in Malaysia it is known and spelled as syariah. The court is known as the Syariah Court ...
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1975: 157 Repealed by Act 549 Standards of Malaysia Act 1996: 549 In force State Grants (Maintenance of Local Authorities) Act 1981: 245 In force State Water Supply Fund (Financial and Accounting Procedure) Act 1980: 230 In force Statistics Act 1965: 415 In force
State laws are enforced by respective state attorneys general or designated state agencies. The privacy laws in the U.S. reflect a complex landscape shaped by sector-specific requirements and state-level variations, illustrating the challenge of protecting privacy in a federated system of government.
The act defines an "official secret" as: ...any document specified in the Schedule and any information and material relating thereto and includes any other official document, information and material as may be classified as 'Top Secret', 'Secret', 'Confidential' or 'Restricted', as the case may be, by a Minister, the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister of a State or such public officer
The Parliament of Malaysia is permitted to legislate on issues of land, Islamic religion and local government to provide for a uniform law between different states, or on the request of the state assembly concerned. The law in question must also be passed by the state assembly as well, except in the case of certain land law-related subjects.
The German state of Hessia enacted the world's first data privacy law on September 30, 1970. [4] In Germany the term informational self-determination was first used in the context of a German constitutional ruling relating to personal information collected during the 1983 census .