Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Amendment of section 7
(a)
by substituting for the shoulder note the following shoulder note:
“Compensation to persons entitled for loss occasioned by death”;
(b)
in subsection (2), by substituting for the words
“and child,” the words “child and any person with disabilities under the care,”;
(c)
in the proviso to subsection (3)—
(i)
in subparagraph (iv)(a)—
(A)
by substituting for the words “fifty five years” the words “sixty years”; and
(B)
by deleting the words “was in good health but for the injury that caused his death and”; and
(ii)
in subparagraph (iv)(d)—
(A)
by substituting for the words “fifty four years” the words “fifty-nine years”; and
(B)
by substituting for the words “figure 55”
the words “figure 60”;
(d)
in subsection (3a), by substituting for the word “ten”
the word “thirty”;
(e)
by substituting for subsection (3b) the following subsection:
“(3b) A claim for damages for bereavement shall only be for the benefit of—
(a)
the spouse of the person deceased;
Civil Law (Amendment)
(b)
the child of the person deceased; and
(c)
the parents of the person deceased.”;
(f)
in subsection (3c), by substituting for the words
“paragraph (3b)(b) for the benefit of the parents of the person deceased” the words “subsection (3b)”; and
(g)
in subsection (4), by substituting for the words
“paragraph (3b)(b)” the words “subsection (3b)”.
Amendment of section 11