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Section 138

Special provisions as to civil prisons in Malaysia

of Armed Forces Act 1972

ActIn forceProvision 153 of 237
Section 138
(1)

A person sentenced to death or imprisonment and committed or transferred to a civil prison in pursuance of regulations made under section 136 or of Imprisonment and Detention Rules shall, while in that prison, be confined and otherwise dealt with in the same manner as a person confined therein under a like sentence of a civil court.

(2)

The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593] and of the Prisons Act 1995 [Act 537], and of any rules made thereunder shall apply in relation to the execution in a civil prison of a sentence of death passed by a court-martial for any offence, but with the substitution in such written laws for references to the Superintendent of Prisons or Officer-in-Charge, as the case may be of references to the provost marshal or other provost officer responsible for the due execution of the sentence.

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Special provisions as to the carrying out or serving of sentences outside Malaysia otherwise than in service prisons or detention barracks