2. Application of Vienna Convention
Feedback & supportSubject to section 4, the Articles set out in the Schedule
(being Articles of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations signed in 1963) shall have the force of law in Malaysia and for that purpose be construed in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
In those Articles—
“authorities of the receiving State” shall be construed as including any police officer and any person exercising a power of entry to any premises under any written law in force in Malaysia;
“national of the receiving State” shall be construed as meaning a citizen.
For the purposes of Article 45, a waiver by the head of a consular post of any State or any person for the time being performing his functions shall be deemed to be a waiver by that State.
Articles 32, 39, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, 58, 60, 62, 65,
66 and 67 shall be construed as granting any privilege or immunity which they require to be granted.
The reference in Article 71 to the extent to which any privileges and immunities are admitted by the receiving State and to the additional privileges and immunities that may be granted by the receiving State shall be construed as referring respectively to the extent to which any privileges and immunities may be specified by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong by order published in the Gazette and to any additional privileges and immunities that may be so specified.