Section 73
of Malaysia Act
Section 73
Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this
Act and to any law passed or made on or after Malaysia Day, all present laws shall, on and after Malaysia Day, have effect according to their tenor, and be construed as if this Act had not been passed:
Provided that references to the Federation (except in relation to a time before Malaysia Day) shall, unless the context otherwise requires or it is otherwise expressly provided by any written law including any order made under section 74, be construed as references to Malaysia, and expressions importing such a reference shall be construed accordingly.
Act 26/1963
(2)
Any present law of the Federation passed or made on or after the day this Act is passed shall extend to any part of Malaysia to which it is expressed to extend; but save as aforesaid no present law of the Federation shall extend to any of the Borneo States or to Singapore, unless or until it is so extended by a law passed or made as aforesaid.
(3)
Subject to the following provisions of this Part, the present laws of the Borneo States and of Singapore shall, on and after
Malaysia Day, be treated as federal laws insofar as they are laws which could not be passed after Malaysia Day by the State
Legislature, and otherwise as State laws.
(4)
This section shall not validate or give effect to any provision contained in the present law of the Federation which is inconsistent with the Constitution, or any provision of present law which is invalid for reasons other than inconsistency with the Constitution.
(5)
In this Part of this Act “present laws” means the laws of the Federation or of any part thereof, of each of the Borneo
States, and of Singapore passed or made or applied to any part of the Federation or to either of the Borneo States or Singapore before Malaysia Day, but does not include the Constitution of the Federation or of any State in Malaysia or this Act.