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Act 143

SCOUTS ASSOCIATION OF
MALAYSIA ACT 1974
Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006

PUBLISHED BY
THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968
IN COLLABORATION WITH
PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD
2006
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Date of Royal Assent … ... … … … 30 July 1974

Date of publication in the Gazette … ... … 22 August 1974

PREVIOUS REPRINTS

First Reprint … … … … … 1997

Second Reprint … … … … … 2001
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1. Short title
2. Change of name of Association
3. New section 13A
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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 143

SCOUTS ASSOCIATION OF MALAYSIA

ACT 1974

An Act to change the name of the Boy Scouts Association of

Malaysia, to provide the penalty for any of the offences provided
therein and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

[23 August 1974]

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan

Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and
Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Scouts Association of Malaysia

Act 1974.

Change of name of Association

2. (1) The Boy Scouts Association of Malaysia incorporated

under subsection 3(1) of the Scouts Association of Malaysia
(Incorporation) Act 1968 [Act 409] (hereinafter referred to as “the
Association”) shall after the commencement of this Act be
known as the Scouts Association of Malaysia and all references
in that Act and in any other written law to the Association
shall be construed accordingly.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity or effect of any
action, proceeding, conveyance, transfer, deed, transaction or act
of any kind bona fide taken, entered into or done before the coming
into force of this Act by or against or in the name or on behalf
of the Boy Scouts Association of Malaysia.
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New section 13A

3. The Boy Scouts Association of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act

1968 is amended by inserting immediately after section 13 a new
section 13A as follows:

“Penalty

13A. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this

Act shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding
five hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one month.”.
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LIST OF AMENDMENTS

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LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED

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