Revision of Laws Act 1968

Revision of Laws Act 1968
Parliament of Malaysia
An Act to provide for the revision and reprinting of laws and subsidiary legislation.
Citation	Act 1
Territorial extent	Throughout Malaysia
Enacted by	Dewan Rakyat
Date passed	17 October 1968
Enacted by	Dewan Negara
Date passed	22 October 1968
Date of Royal Assent	24 December 1968
Date commenced	31 December 1968
Date effective	1 January 1969
Legislative history
Bill introduced in the Dewan Rakyat	Revision of Laws Bill 1968
Introduced by	Bahaman Samsudin, Minister of Justice
First reading	September 1968
Second reading	17 October 1968
Third reading	17 October 1968
Bill introduced in the Dewan Negara	Revision of Laws Bill 1968
Introduced by	Bahaman Samsudin, Minister of Justice
First reading	22 October 1968
Second reading	22 October 1968
Third reading	22 October 1968
Amendments
Emergency (Revision of Laws) (Amendment) Ordinance 1970 [P.U. (A) 107/1970] Revision of Laws (Amendment) Act 1971 [Act A43] Constitution (Amendment) Act 1994 [Act A885] Revision of Laws (Amendment) Act 1999 [Act A1061]
Related legislation
Reprint of Federal Laws Act 1965 [No. 26 of 1965] Section 48 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance 1948 [M.U. 7 of 1948]
Status: In force

The Revision of Laws Act 1968 (Malay: Akta Penyemakan Undang-undang 1968), is a Malaysian laws which enacted to provide for the revision and reprinting of laws and subsidiary legislation.

Structure

The Revision of Laws Act 1968, in its current form (1 August 2008), consists of 18 sections and no schedule (including 4 amendments), without separate Part.

• Section 1: Short title
• Section 2: Interpretation
• Section 3: Appointment of Commissioner
• Section 4: Appointment of Committee
• Section 5: Printing of revised laws
• Section 6: Powers of the Commissioner
• Section 7: Method of compiling a revised law
• Section 8: Examination by the Committee
• Section 9: Revised law to comply with Committee's opinion
• Section 10: Publication of revised law
• Section 11: Completion of revision of pre-1969 laws to be notified in Gazette
• Section 12: Saving of existing subsidiary legislation
• Section 13: Revision of subsidiary legislation
• Section 14: Reprint of laws
• Section 14A: Publication volume by volume
• Section 14B: Updating of reprints
• Section 14C: Delegation of powers
• Section 15: Rectification of formal errors
• Section 16: Reference to number of line in any law
• Section 17: Place of this Act in the Laws of Malaysia series
• Section 18: Repeal

References

External links

• Revision of Laws Act 1968  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.