National Service Act 1952 · Updated to 29 Mar 1990 · Part V · Enlistment in Armed Forces
11M. Punishment for inducing a national service reservist to desert or absent himself
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procures or persuades any person in the national service reserve to desert or attempts to procure or persuade any such person to desert;
knowing that a person as aforesaid is about to desert, aids or assists him in so doing; or
knowing any such person to be a deserter, conceals such person or aids or assists him in concealing himself, or aids or assists him in his rescue, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or to both.
The last foregoing subsection shall apply to absence without leave and absentees without leave as it applies to desertion and deserters, but with the substitution for the reference to such imprisonment or fine as is therein specified of a reference to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.
False pretence of desertion, etc.