Section 33
Minor amendments
of Malaysia Act
In Article 24 of the Constitution the words “at any time after Merdeka Day” in both places, and in Article 25 the words “whether beginning before, on or after Merdeka Day” in
Clause (2), shall be omitted; and in Article 28 (which makes
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special provision as to the termination of citizenship of persons becoming citizens on Merdeka Day) there shall be added at the end as a new Clause (3)—
“(3) A person who on Merdeka Day became a citizen by operation of law as having been a citizen of the Federation immediately before that day shall not be deprived of citizenship under Clause (1) or (2) of Article 24 by reason of anything done on or before that day; but in the case of any such person
Clause (2) of Article 25 shall apply equally in relation to a period of residence in foreign countries beginning before
Merdeka Day and in relation to such a period beginning on or after that day.”
(2)
Article 25 of the Constitution (which provides for deprivation of citizenship for disloyalty, etc.) shall be amended as follows:
(a)
for the words “Article 17” there shall in all places be substituted the words “Article 16a or 17”;
(b)
in Clause (1a) the words from “after” to “later, and” shall be omitted, and there shall be added at the end of the
Clause the proviso—
“Provided that a person shall not be deprived of citizenship under this Clause by reason of anything done before the beginning of October, 1962, notwithstanding that he was at the time a citizen”;
(c)
in Clause (2) for the words “Malayan consulate” in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words
“consulate of the Federation”.
(3)
In the Second Schedule to the Constitution there shall be made, in the provisions which by virtue of this Act constitute Part III of that Schedule, the amendments provided for by Part IV of the Third Schedule to this Act.