Section 14
Exclusion of persons from aboriginal areas and aboriginal reserves
of Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954
The Minister may, if he is satisfied that having regard to the proper administration of the welfare of the aborigines in any aboriginal area or aboriginal reserve or aboriginal inhabited place it is desirable that any person or class of person should be prohibited from entering or remaining in the area, reserve or place, make an order to that effect in the form prescribed in the Schedule.
(2)
The order when addressed to an individual person, may be served on the person named therein by a police officer or by any person whom the Minister may direct to serve the same.
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(b)
The order shall if practicable be served personally on the person named therein by showing him the original order and by tendering or delivering to him a copy thereof signed by the Minister.
(c)
If service cannot conveniently be effected as aforesaid the serving officer shall affix a copy of the order to some conspicuous part of the house or other place where the person named in the order ordinarily resides and thereupon the order shall be deemed to have been duly served.
(d)
A certificate signed by the Minister that an order has been duly served on the person named therein shall be admissible in evidence in any judicial proceeding and on the production of such a certificate the court shall presume until the contrary is proved that the order was duly served.
(3)
The order, when addressed to class of persons, shall be published in the Gazette.
(4)
Any person on whom an order has been served in accordance with this section who is found within any aboriginal area, aboriginal reserve or aboriginal inhabited place mentioned in the order and any person who is a member of any class of persons which has been prohibited from entering or remaining in any aboriginal area, aboriginal reserve or aboriginal inhabited place who is found within the area, reserve or place shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.
(5)
Any person found committing an offence under subsection
(4)
may be arrested without warrant by the Director General or any police officer.