Peaceful Assembly (Amendment) Act 2019

This Act may be cited as the Peaceful Assembly (Amendment)

This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.

The Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 [Act 736], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 3

by deleting the definition of “street protest”.

Section 4 of the principal Act is amended—

in subsection (1), by deleting paragraph (c);

in subsection (2), by deleting paragraph (c); and

in subsection (3), by deleting the words “(c),”.

Subsection 9(1) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “ten days” the words “five days”.

Subsection 12(2) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “forty-eight hours” the words “twenty-four hours”.

Subsection 14(1) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “five days” the words “three days”.

Section 16 of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “forty-eight hours” wherever appearing the words

“twenty-four hours”.

Subsection 21(1) of the principal Act is amended by deleting paragraph (b).

The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 21

the following section:

“Power to compound offences 21a.  (1)  The Officer in Charge of a Police District may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, compound any offence punishable under section 9 or 15 by making a written offer to the person suspected to have committed the offence to compound the offence upon payment to the Officer in Charge of the Police District of such amount of money not exceeding five thousand ringgit within such time as may be specified in the written offer.

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An offer under subsection (1) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed but before any prosecution for it has been instituted.

If the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended time as the

Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any document or thing seized in connection with the offence may be released by the Officer in Charge of the Police District, subject to such terms as the Officer in Charge of the Police District thinks fit.”.

On the date of coming into operation of this Act, the requirement on the period relating to a notification of an assembly under sections 9, 12 and 16 of the principal Act as amended by this Act shall apply to any notification given before the date of coming into operation of this Act in respect of an assembly which is yet to be held.

Any investigation, prosecution or proceedings in respect of any offence under the principal Act pending under the principal