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Defamation Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom relating to defamation. It supersedes the short title Libel Act .
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.
Central Bank of Malaysia Act 1958: 519 Repealed by Act 701 Central Bank of Malaysia Act 2009: 701 In force Chemicals Weapons Convention Act 2005: 641 In force Chemists Act 1975: 158 In force Cheng Hoon Teng Temple (Incorporation) Act 1949: 517 In force Child Act 2001: 611 In force Child Care Centre Act 1984: 308 In force Child Protection Act ...
In Malaysia, defamation is both a tort and a criminal offence meant to protect the reputation and good name of a person. The principal statutes relied upon are the Defamation Act 1957 (Revised 1983) and the Penal Code. Following the practice of other common law jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, Singapore, and India, Malaysia relies on case ...
In May 1963, the Parliament of Malaysia had enacted the Malaysia Act 1963, [18] which extended the Defamation Act 1957 [19] to Singapore, then a state in the Federation of Malaysia. Since the Act, now the Defamation Act (Cap. 75, 1985 Rev. Ed.), was premised on common law rules of the tort of defamation, the Court held that the Legislature had ...
The Sedition Act 1948 (Malay: Akta Hasutan 1948) in Malaysia is a law prohibiting discourse deemed as seditious. The act was originally enacted by the colonial authorities of British Malaya in 1948 to contain the local communist insurgence. [ 1 ]
Malaysia uses the Sedition Act 1948 to charge people for allegedly insulting the royal institution. In 2013, Melissa Gooi and four other friends were detained for allegedly insulting the royal institution.
The 1993 amendments to the Constitution of Malaysia [1] [2] were passed by the Malaysian parliament with the aim of removing legal immunity of the royalty. The changes, which saw the amendments of Articles 32, 38, 42, 63, 72 and 181 in the Constitution of Malaysia , [ 3 ] were implemented in March 1993.