Section 9
Rules
of Offenders Compulsory Attendance Act 1954
The Minister may make Rules, not inconsistent with the Act, for the good management and government of Compulsory
Attendance Centres and for the carrying out of this Act.
(2)
In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such Rules may prescribe for all or any of the following purposes or matters:
(a)
the staffing of the Compulsory Attendance Centres with
Prison Officers or instructors and the supervision, treatment and training of offenders;
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(b)
the medical examination, measuring, photographing and taking of statistics, finger impressions or other records of offenders, including detailed personal histories, and for requiring full and truthful answers to all questions put to such persons with the object of obtaining such statistics and histories;
(c)
the kind of compulsory work to be undertaken by the offenders;
(d)
the remission of the period of the Compulsory Attendance
Order to be allowed to offenders who duly comply with the
Rules on which such remissions are to be made;
(e)
the disposal of the products of the compulsory work of offenders;
(f)
the amount of remission earned to be forfeited for breach of this Act or the Rules made thereunder;
(g)
any other matter which under this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed.
(3)
All Rules made under this Act shall be laid as soon as conveniently may be before the Dewan Rakyat, and if a resolution of the Dewan Rakyat is passed within the next subsequent three months after any such Rule is laid before it that such Rule shall be annulled, such Rule shall thereafter be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or to the making of any new Rule.
*NOTE—see section 10 of the Offenders Compulsory Attendance (Amendment)
Act 2022 [Act A1660] w.e.f. 30 September 2022 which provides the following provision: