Malaysia legislation

Section 35

of *INTERPRETATION ACTS 1948 AND 1967

Section 35

References to written laws

(a)

is a reference to that law as amended or extended from time to time; and

(b)

includes a reference to any subsidiary legislation made thereunder.

(2)

Where any written law or any provision of a written law is repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification), references in any other written law to the law or provision so repealed shall be construed as references to the re-enacted law or provision.

(3)

A reference to a group of sections or other divisions (by whatever name called) of a written law includes both the first and the last section or other division referred to.

(4)

A reference to the number of a line of any provision of a written law is a reference to the line of that number in the latest official printed copy of that law at the time of the making of the law containing the reference.

Internal references in written laws