Section 17
Aborigines not to be excluded from any school
of Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954
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Section 17
(1)
No aboriginal child shall be precluded from attending any school by reason only of his being an aborigine.
(2)
No aboriginal child attending any school shall be obliged to attend any religious instruction unless the prior consent of his father or of his mother if his father is dead, or of his guardian should both parents be dead, is notified to the Director General, and is transmitted by the Director General in writing to the headmaster of the school concerned.
(3)
Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.