Section 17
of Interpretation Ordinance, 2005, 2005
Section 17
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Power to make subsidiary legislation shall, unless another method of publication is authorized, be deemed to include a direction to publish it in the Gazette and, without prejudice to section 16, a direction that it shall come into operation on the date of its publication.
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(2)
If the particular form or manner of publication of any legislation or instrument has not been provided for then without prejudice to subsection (1) and to any form or manner which may be deemed sufficient it shall be deemed to be duly published if it is published in such form or manner as the Minister shall direct.
(3)
Without prejudice to subsection (1), a provision in any written law that subsidiary legislation of any description shall be made or published in the Gazette shall not be deemed to prohibit the making of any such subsidiary legislation otherwise than in the Gazette, and that provision shall be deemed to have been complied with if, after that subsidiary legislation has been made, the fact that that subsidiary legislation has been made and its contents are published, by signification or otherwise, in the Gazette.
(4)
Without prejudice to subsection (6), subsection (3) shall apply to instruments not constituting subsidiary legislation with the modification that it shall suffice to publish the purport of it.
(5)
The expression “notification in the Gazette” shall not import a duty to execute any formal instrument or to use any words denoting notification, but shall nevertheless import a direction to effect publication in the Gazette in an appropriate manner.
(6)
Nothing in the definition of “instrument” as read with this section shall import either a duty or direction to execute any formal instrument, unless that duty is otherwise required or a direction to publish the fact that an instrument has been made, unless that is in fact the case.
Signification of orders of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri and Majlis