Section 10
Section 10
Any person seeking to enter Malaysia who is not entitled so to enter as a citizen or by virtue of a valid Pass to enter
Malaysia issued to him or seeking to remain in Malaysia after the expiry of such a Pass may make application in that behalf in the manner prescribed to the Director General or to such other person whether within or outside Malaysia as the Director General may, from time to time, appoint for the purpose.
(2)
Upon application made under subsection (1) and upon payment of the prescribed fees the Director General may issue to the applicant an Entry Permit on such terms and conditions as the Director
General may think fit in the prescribed form and shall, if the applicant is required by any written law relating to passports for the time being in force in Malaysia to have a visa to enter Malaysia, issue a visa to the applicant on the production by him of his passport or other travel document and on payment of the fee prescribed by the written law and the visa shall remain valid until the expiry or cancellation of the Entry Permit issued to him.
(3)
Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Director General to issue to him an Entry Permit under subsection (2) may within thirty days of the notification of the refusal to him appeal by petition in writing to the Minister*, whose decision thereon shall be final.
*NOTE—For an appeal from a person in Sabah and Sarawak in certain circumstances—see paragraph 6(1)(a), subsections 6(5) and (6), Immigration (Transitional Provisions) Order 1963 [L.N. 226/
1963].