Malaysia legislation

Section 3

of CIVIL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

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

Section 3 — AKTA UNDANG-UNDANG SIVIL (PINDAAN) 2019