Malaysia legislation
Section 8
Section 8
Payment of allowance, etc.
(a)
residing in the Home for Aged South Indian Labourers;
or
(b)
registered with the Board, and receiving any allowance, maintenance or other financial assistance or any welfare assistance or other benefit from the Fund shall, on and after the appointed date, be entitled to continue to receive such allowance, maintenance, financial assistance, welfare assistance or benefit from the Government at such rates as may be approved by the Government.
(2)
For the purposes of this section, “South Indian labourer”
means any labourer—
(a)
whose mother tongue is, or the mother tongue of either of whose parents was, Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Canarese or Uriya; and
(b)
who was born in, or is descended from persons who were born in South India.
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