Malaysia legislation

Section 22

of DRUG DEPENDANTS (TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

Section 22

The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 21

the following section:

Quoted provision

Section 21

(a)

who is undergoing treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at a Rehabilitation Centre or

Service Centre under the supervision of a

Rehabilitation Officer; or

(b)

who has been ordered to undergo treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at a Rehabilitation Centre or Service Centre but has not yet commenced to undergo the treatment and rehabilitation, is sentenced by any court to any term of imprisonment or by a Court For Children to any term of detention, or is detained under any law relating to preventive detention, such imprisonment or detention shall take precedence over the order under sections 6 and 6a.

Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation)

(Amendment)

(2)

The period of imprisonment or detention served shall be deemed as the period of treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at a Rehabilitation Centre or Service Centre, as the case may be, and shall be deemed as undergone concurrently with the period of such imprisonment or detention.

(3)

Where upon completion of the period of imprisonment or detention, there still remain any part of the period for which the person has been ordered to undergo treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at a Rehabilitation Centre or

Service Centre that has not yet been completed, such person shall undergo treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at the Rehabilitation Centre or Service Centre, as the case may be, for the remaining part of period that has not been completed.

(4)

During the period of imprisonment or detention, such drug or substance dependant or drug or substance misuser shall undergo treatment and rehabilitation conducted by the Rehabilitation Officer.

(5)

Subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall not apply to a person undergoing treatment and rehabilitation in a community or at a Rehabilitation Centre or Service Centre, as the case may be, under sections 8 and 9.”.

Amendment of section 26