Malaysia legislation

Section 18

of *INTERPRETATION ACTS 1948 AND 1967

Section 18

Gazette

(a)

a part to be known as the Acts Supplement which shall be published as and when necessary and which shall contain all Acts of Parliament and all Ordinances promulgated by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong;

(b)

a part to be known as the Legislative Supplement A which shall be published as and when necessary and which shall contain all Royal Proclamations, orders, rules, regulations and by-laws;

(c)

a part to be known as the Legislative Supplement B which shall be published as and when necessary and which shall contain all subsidiary legislation other than that which is required to be published in the Legislative Supplement A;

(d)

a part to be known as the Bills Supplement which shall be published as and when necessary and which shall contain all Bills;

(e)

a part which shall contain all matter which is required to be published in the Gazette or which the Government deems it necessary to publish for general information

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other than matter which this subsection requires to be published in the other parts.

(2)

Publication in the official Gazette of Malaysia shall constitute sufficient notice of any matter required to be published in the Gazette by or under any federal law or required to be published in the Sabah Government Gazette or the Sarawak Government Gazette by or under any enactment of those States which has been declared to be a federal law.

(3)

Where any matter is of local application only and is issued under the authority of a State officer or any person in the State having authority to do so under federal law it shall constitute sufficient notice thereof if the matter is published in the official Gazette of the

State concerned.

(4)

Where the Gazette is published in more than one form, the date of publication of the Gazette shall be deemed to be the date the

Gazette is first published in any form.

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