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Section 186

Power of certain officers to take statutory declarations

of Armed Forces Act 1972

ActIn forceProvision 201 of 237
Section 186
(1)

An officer of the regular forces of a rank not below that of major, lieutenant-commander or squadron leader (hereinafter referred to as “the authorized officer”) may, outside Malaysia, take statutory declarations from persons subject to service law under this Act.

(2)

A document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of an authorized officer in testimony of a statutory declaration being taken before him in pursuance of this section and containing in the jurat or attestation a statement of the date on which and the place at which the declaration was taken and of the full name and rank of that officer shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that officer or of the facts so stated.

166 Laws of Malaysia ACT 77