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Section 19

Exemption

of Employment (Restriction) Act 1968

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(a)

members of any visiting force within the meaning of any law for the time being in force regulating visiting forces present in Malaysia;

(b)

persons duly accredited as diplomatic or consular representatives to Malaysia;

(c)

persons upon whom the immunities and privileges referred to in the Schedule to the Diplomatic Privileges (Vienna

Convention) Act 1966 [Act 636] and in the Schedule to the

Consular Relations (Vienna Convention) Act 1999 [Act 595]

have been conferred under those Acts;

(d)

private servants or other employees of persons referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) being employees recruited for such employment from the country of the visiting force or the country which the person referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) represents in Malaysia;

(e)

officers of any international organization declared by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under section 3a of the

Diplomatic Privileges (Vienna Convention) Act 1966; and

(f)

persons whose presence in Malaysia is sponsored by the

Government.

(2)

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order exempt any person or class of persons from any or all of the provisions of this Act.

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