Malaysia legislation
Article 15
Article 15
Where the registration authority is satisfied of all matters required by Article 17
for the purposes of an application for registration under that Article, they shall give notice to that effect to the Minister; and unless within such period as may be prescribed by rules made by the Minister for the purposes of this section the Minister otherwise directs, the authority shall register the applicant accordingly.”.
Section 16
The original section was substituted by Act 10/1960, paragraph 33(j), in force from 01-12-1960 and read as follows:
“16. It shall be an offence punishable with imprisonment for two years or a fine of one thousand dollars or both for any person knowingly to make any false statement with a view to inducing the registration authority or the Minister to grant or refuse any application under Part III including any application to determine whether the applicant is a citizen by operation of law.”.
Subsection 16(1)
The word “ringgit” substituted for the word “dollars” by Act 160, section 2, in force from 29-08-1975.
Federal Constitution
(b)
to forge or without lawful authority alter any certificate, whether issued or granted in the Federation or elsewhere, or without lawful authority use or have in his possession any certificate which has been so forged or altered; or
(c)
to fail to comply with any requirement imposed upon him by any rules made under section 6 with respect to the delivering up of certificates; or
(d)
to personate or falsely represent himself to be or not to be a person to whom a certificate, whether issued in the Federation or elsewhere, has been duly issued or granted.
(2)
In this section “certificate” means any certificate of the following descriptions issued under Part III of this Constitution that is to say:
(a)
any certificate of a registration or of naturalization as a citizen; and
(b)
any certificate of registration effected at a consulate of the Federation or elsewhere outside the Federation; and
(c)
any such certificate as is mentioned in Article 30.
Interpretation 17.
For the purposes of Part III of this Constitution references to a person’s father or to his parent, or to one of his parents, are in relation to a person who is illegitimate to be construed as references to his mother, and accordingly section 19 of this Schedule shall not apply to such a person.