Section 3

Judges of the Federal Court and the High Courts;

members of the Cabinet and any House of Parliament;

members of any Executive Council or any Legislative

Assembly as defined in the Constitution;

accredited diplomatic or consular representatives and diplomatic or consular employees who are not domiciled in Malaysia;

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National Service

persons employed in the service of the Government of any part of the Commonwealth outside Malaysia whose presence in Malaysia is occasioned solely by their employment in that service;

serving members of the regular forces;

serving members of the Malaysian Territorial Army, the

Royal Malaysian Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Royal

Malaysian Air Force Volunteer Reserve;

members of the police forces;

persons in holy orders and regular ministers, religious officials or lay missionaries of a recognized religious denomination who as such have been exempted from the operation of this Act by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong by notification in the Gazette;

mentally disordered persons within the meaning of any written law in force in Malaysia relating to mental disorders or persons found to be of unsound mind under Chapter

XXXIII of the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593] so long as such mental disorder or unsoundness of mind persists;

persons certified by two registered medical practitioners to be blind;

members of fire brigades maintained under any written law in force in Malaysia;

persons who have left or been discharged from the regular forces in consequence of disablement or ill-health, so long as such disablement or ill-health persists;

any other persons or categories of persons exempted from the operation of this Act by order of the Yang di-Pertuan

Agong.

In any case where there is doubt or dispute as to whether any person is entitled to exemption by reason of this section, the onus of proving that he is so entitled shall be on the person claiming such exemption.

Where a notice has been duly served upon any person under this Act requiring him to do something on a future date and such person is at that date no longer liable to such requirement under this Act, such notice shall thereupon be deemed to be of no effect.

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