Malaysia legislation
Section 6
Section 6
Section 39 of the principal Act is amended—
(a)
by substituting for the shoulder note the following shoulder note:
“Preventing person from leaving Malaysia without paying contributions”;
(b)
in subsection (1)—
(i)
by substituting for paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“(a) Where the chief executive officer has reason to believe that any person is about or is likely to leave Malaysia without paying any outstanding and due contributions under this Act, the chief executive officer may issue to the Director General of Immigration a certificate containing particulars of the person and the outstanding and due contributions with a request that the person be prevented from leaving Malaysia, unless he pays the outstanding and due contributions, or furnishes security to the satisfaction of the chief executive officer for its payment.”;
(ii)
in paragraph (b), by substituting for the words
“banishment or immigration the Inspector General of Police or” the words “immigration,”; and
(iii)
in paragraph (d), by substituting for the words
“moneys due” the words “the outstanding and due contributions”;
(c)
in subsection (2), by deleting the words “, a police officer”; and
(d)
by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsections:
“(3) Any person who, knowing that a certificate has been issued in respect of him under subsection (1), leaves
Malaysia without paying all the outstanding and due contributions specified in the certificate or furnishing security to the satisfaction of the chief executive officer for its payment shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or to both.
(4)
For the purpose of this section, “contributions”
includes any dividend or late payment charges due on any contributions.”.
Employees Provident Fund (Amendment)
7
Amendment of section 43