Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires or it is otherwise expressly provided—
"Chief Police Officer" includes a Commissioner of Police vested with the control of the Royal Malaysian Police in respect of any area or State and any senior police officer for the time being lawfully authorized to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed upon a Chief Police Officer by this Act;
"corrosive substance" means any of the acids and substances specified in the First Schedule and shall be deemed to include all substances which are capable on application to the human body of causing hurt through corrosive action;
"document" includes any substance on which is recorded any matter, whether by letters, figures, marks, pictorial or other representation, or by more than one of these means;
"explosive substance" shall be deemed to include any materials for making any explosive substance and any bomb, grenade, apparatus, machine, implement or material used or intended to be used or adapted for causing or aiding in causing any explosion in or with any explosive substance and any part of the bomb, grenade, apparatus, machine or implement;
"hurt" means hurt as defined in the Penal Code [Act 574];
"offensive weapon" includes any instrument which if used as a weapon of offence is likely to cause hurt;
"Peninsular Malaysia" has the meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388], and includes the Federal Territory.
"police officer" includes a volunteer reserve police officer and auxiliary police officer appointed in accordance with any written law for the time being in force;
"proclaimed area" means an area in respect of which a proclamation made or renewed under section 3 is for the time being in force;
"subversive document" means any document which contains—
(a)
any matter which is seditious within the meaning of the Sedition Act 1948 [Act 15];
(b)
any matter likely to be prejudicial to the maintenance or restoration of public order;
(c)
any matter counselling or likely to lead to disobedience to the law of Malaysia or to any lawful order therein;
(d)
any matter inciting or likely to lead to unlawful violence or the promotion of feeling of ill-will or hostility between different races or classes of the population in Malaysia; or
(e)
any matter likely to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against any public servant in the execution of his duties or any class of public servants or against any armed force lawfully in Malaysia or any member of any such force in the execution of his duties;
Public Order (Preservation)