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collect or attempt to collect;

promote or attempt to promote any collection of; or

make or attempt to make any appeal orally or in writing or otherwise for, any money or other property from any person, not being money or property due or about to fall due under or by virtue of any written law, contract or other legal obligation.

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Any person who contravenes subsection (l) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

The Minister may, in any particular case, in his absolute discretion, grant exemption to any person from the application of subsection (1), subject to such terms and conditions and for such period as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit.

Without prejudice to the provisions of this Act or any other written law relating to the delegation of powers, the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, delegate the exercise of his powers under subsection (3) to the Rector in respect of the collection of money within the campus from persons within the campus, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be specified in such notification.

The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any written law relating to house to house and street collections, public collections, or collection of money or sale of badges.

Criminal liability of office-bearers, etc., of a students’

organization, body or group