Seterusnya Mahkamah ini merujuk kepada kes Mahkamah Persekutuan, Abdullah bin Atan v Public Prosecutor and other appeals [2020] 6 MLJ 727 di mana Mahkamah secara tuntas telah menerangkan bahawa di dalam situasi yang melibatkan konflik di antara undang-undang am dan undang-undang khusus, undang-undang khusus akan mengatasi kepentingan seperti berikut: "..[53] Furthermore, the DDA is a specific Act relating to and dealing with trials in respect of dangerous drugs. The CPC, on the other hand, is a law of general application. Where there is a conflict between a specific law and a general law, the conflict may be resolved in one of two ways. The first is via the maxim generalia specialibus derogant. The second is the doctrine of harmonious construction. [54] The former Federal Court had the occasion to consider the operation of the CPC and the DDA in Public Prosecutor v Chew Siew Luan [1982] 2 MLJ 119. In Chew Siew Luan, the question was whether the provisions relating to bail in the CPC were applicable to a trafficking charge preferred under the DDA. The Federal Court unanimously held that the provisions of the DDA will apply to the exclusion of the CPC. This is what Raja Azlan Shah CJ (Malaya) (as His Majesty then was) said: Now, the Criminal Procedure Code (FMS Cap 6) which came into force on 1.1.1927 is an enactment regulating criminal proceedings in general in the former Federated Malay States. It was amended and extended throughout Malaysia by the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment and Extension) Act, 1976 on 10.1.1976. It cannot be gainsaid that it is a written law within the meaning assigned in section 2 of the Interpretation Act, 1967. The Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (Revised — 1980) is an Act specifically designed to regulate the importation, exportation, manufacture, sale and use of, inter alia, dangerous drugs, and 'to make special provisions relating to the jurisdiction of courts in respect of offences thereunder and their trial, and for purposes connected therewith'. In other words, the Act is in substance a special law passed by Parliament in derogation of the rights of a person concerning the granting of bail in an otherwise ordinary case. We further note in particular that section 41B of the Act is an entirely new section introduced by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1978 (A A426) and became operative on 10.3.1978. Generalibus specialia derogant is a cardinal principle of interpretation. It means that where a special provision is made in a special statute, that special provision excludes the operation of a general provision in the general law It would be erroneous to apply expressions used and provisions made in one statute to another and entirely different one in complete disregard of the latter's express stipulations in the light of its specific purpose and object. On the other hand, it is a sound, and, indeed, a well-known principle of construction of a statute that the purport of words and expressions used in a legislative measure must take their colour from the context in which they appear. ... The provisions regulating the granting of bail under the Dangerous Drugs Act must be construed in the context of that Act and not in that of the Criminal Procedure Code and to that extent the general provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code must ex necessitate yield to the specific provisions of section 41B of the Dangerous Drugs Act in that regard. We should perhaps also observe en passant that any other construction would result in nullifying the purport and effect of the provisions of section 41B(1)(c) of the Dangerous Drugs Act ...”