Section 48
Section 14 of the principal Act is amended—
of Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023
(a)
by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1) Any person who manufactures an arm or ammunition without a valid licence granted under section 12 or in contravention of any condition imposed under paragraph 12(2)(a) shall, on conviction—
(a)
be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years but not exceeding forty years and with whipping of not less than six strokes;
and
(b)
in the case of a company, firm, society or body of persons, be punished with a fine not exceeding five million ringgit.”; and
(b)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
by substituting for the words “twenty-five thousand ringgit” the words “two hundred and fifty thousand ringgit”; and
(ii)
by substituting for the words “one hundred thousand ringgit” the words “one million ringgit”.