Section 9
Exceptions to political offences
ActIn forceProvision 8 of 51
Section 9
(1)
For the purposes of paragraph 8(a), any of the following offences shall not be held to be offences of a political character in relation to a country which has made corresponding provisions in its laws:
(a)
murder or other wilful crime against the person of a Head of State or a member of the Head of State’s immediate family;
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(b)
an act which, under a multilateral treaty to which Malaysia and the country seeking the return of the fugitive criminal are parties, constitutes an offence for which a person will be extradited or prosecuted notwithstanding the political character or motivation of such act;
(c)
any attempt, abetment or a conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offences.