Section 33
Minor amendments
of Malaysia Act
(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.