Section 2

“aboriginal area” means an aboriginal area declared to be such under this Act;

“aboriginal community” means the members of one aboriginal ethnic group living together in one place;

“aboriginal ethnic group” means a distinct tribal division of aborigines as characterised by culture, language or social organization and includes any group which the State Authority may, by order, declare to be an aboriginal ethnic group;

“aboriginal inhabited place” means any place inhabited by an aboriginal community but which has not been declared to be an aboriginal area or aboriginal reserve;

“aboriginal language” includes any language and such dialectal modifications or archaic forms of the language as any aborigines habitually use;

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“aboriginal racial group” means one of the three main aboriginal groups in Peninsular Malaysia divided racially into Negrito, Senoi and Proto-Malay;

“aboriginal reserve” means an aboriginal reserve declared to be such under this Act;

“aboriginal way of life” includes living in settled communities in kampungs either inland or along the coast;

“alienated” in relation to land has the meaning assigned to it in the written law relating to land in force in Peninsular Malaysia;

“Director General” means the Director General for Orang Asli

Affairs appointed under section 5;

“Deputy Director General” means a Deputy Director General for Orang Asli Affairs appointed under section 5.