Malaysia legislation

Section 4

of PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

Section 4

Section 5 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1a)  Where the processing of personal data is carried out by a data processor on behalf of the data controller, the data processor shall comply with the Security Principle as specified in section 9.”; and

Personal Data Protection (Amendment)

(b)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

by inserting after the words “subsection (1)”

the words “or a data processor who contravenes subsection (1a)”; and

(ii)

by substituting for the words “three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both” the words

“one million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both”.

Amendment of section 9

Section 4 — AKTA PERLINDUNGAN DATA PERIBADI (PINDAAN) 2024