Section 1
This Act may be cited as the Subordinate Courts Rules
(Amendment) Act 2020.
(2)
This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
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Subordinate Courts Rules (Amendment) Act 2020 is Malaysia Amendment Act, cited as Amendment Act A1623 2020, currently marked in force and first recorded in 2020.
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SUBORDINATE COURTS RULES (AMENDMENT)
ACT 2020
Date of Royal Assent
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10 October 2020
Date of publication in the
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22 October 2020
Gazette
Publisher’s Copyright C
(Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia).
Subordinate Courts Rules (Amendment)
Opening note
This Act may be cited as the Subordinate Courts Rules
(Amendment) Act 2020.
This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
Amendment of section 2
The Subordinate Courts Rules Act 1955 [Act 55], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 2
by inserting after the definition of “proceeding” the following definition:
‘ “remote communication technology” means a live video link, a live television link or any other electronic means of communication;’.
SUBORDINATE COURTS RULES (AMENDMENT)
ACT 2020
Amendment of section 3
Subsection 3(2) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for paragraph (f) the following paragraph:
“(f) the Chief Registrar of the Federal Court;”.
Amendment of section 4
Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“(aa) for regulating and prescribing the procedure and the practice to be followed in Subordinate Courts in all causes and matters whatsoever in or with respect to the hearing of any matter or proceeding through a remote communication technology;”.
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