Malaysia legislation
Section 87
Section 87
When an Act of Parliament, Ordinance or Enactment confers power on any authority to make subsidiary legislation, the following
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provisions shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have effect with reference to the making and operation of such subsidiary legislation:
(a)
subsidiary legislation may at any time be amended, varied, rescinded or revoked by the same authority and in the same manner by and in which it was made:
Provided that where such authority has been replaced wholly or partially by another authority, the power conferred herein upon the original authority may be exercised by the replacing authority concerning all matters or things within its jurisdiction as if it were the original authority;
(b)
there may be annexed to the breach of any subsidiary legislation such penalty not exceeding one thousand ringgit, or such term of imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, as the authority making the subsidiary legislation may think fit;
(c)
when any Act of Parliament, Ordinance or Enactment confers power on any authority to make subsidiary legislation for any general purpose, and also for any special purpose incidental thereto, the enumeration of the special purposes shall not be deemed to derogate from the generality of the powers conferred with reference to the general purpose;
(d)
no subsidiary legislation made under an Act of Parliament or Ordinance shall be inconsistent with any Act of
Parliament or Ordinance, and no subsidiary legislation made under a State Enactment shall be inconsistent with any Act of Parliament or Ordinance or Enactment.
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Construction of powers under which subsidiary legislation is made