Section 15A
Feedback & supportAny person who in any Government office or in the office of any public authority, or in the vicinity thereof offers, or solicits to offer, or loiters for the purpose of offering, for profit or reward his services to any person having business in that office or any other office (whether or not the services so offered relate
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to the business) shall be guilty of an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both:
Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to—
any person who is licensed under any written law or is otherwise authorized to act as a petition writer; and
any officer in the office specifically appointed to advise the public on the business carried on in the said office.
For the purpose of this section “Government office” includes the office of the Registrar of Federal Court, the High Court, Sessions
Court or Magistrate’s Court, and “public authority” shall mean a local authority, or a statutory authority exercising powers vested in it by Federal or State law.
Any person offering or soliciting to offer his services or loitering in any office mentioned in subsection (1) or in the vicinity thereof shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have offered or solicited to offer, as the case may be, his services for profit or reward.
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