Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2023

Amends the Penal Code

The text

Penal Code (Amendment)

PENAL CODE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2023

Date of Royal Assent

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27 April 2023

Date of publication in the

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5 May 2023

Gazette

Publisher’s Copyright C

(Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia).

Penal Code (Amendment)

Preamble

An Act to amend the Penal Code.

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ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows:

s 1Short title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Penal Code (Amendment)

Act 2023.

(2)

This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.

s 2New section 507a

The Penal Code [Act 574] is amended by inserting after section 507 the following section:

“Stalking 507a. (1) Whoever repeatedly by any act of harassment, intending to cause, or knowing or ought to know that the act is likely to cause, distress, fear or alarm to any person of the person’s safety, commits an offence of stalking.

PENAL CODE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2023

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1), the act of harassment may include the following:

(a)

following or tracking a person in any manner or by any means;

(b)

communicating or attempting to communicate with a person in any manner or by any means;

(c)

loitering at the place of residence or business of a person;

(d)

giving or sending any thing to a person in any manner or by any means.

(3)

Whoever commits the offence of stalking shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.

(4)

In this section, “repeatedly” shall refer to at least two occasions.”.