Section 15
Section 15
Subject to this section, sections 64 and 93 of the Armed
Forces Act 1972 [Act 77] (which relate to the apprehension, custody and delivery into military custody of deserters and absentees without leave from the Malaysian Armed Forces) shall within Malaysia apply in relation to deserters and absentees without leave from the forces of any country to which this section applies as they apply in relation to deserters and absentees without leave from the Malaysian
Armed Forces.
(2)
The powers conferred by the said sections 64 and 93 as applied by subsection (1) shall not be exercised in relation to a person except in compliance with a request (whether specific or general) of the appropriate authority of the country to which he belongs.
(3)
In sections 64 and 93 of the Armed Forces Act 1972 as applied by subsection (1)—
(a)
references to the delivery of a person into military custody shall be construed as references to the handing over of that person to such authority of the country to which he belongs, at such place in Malaysia as may be designated by the appropriate authority of that country; and
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(b)
references to the General Officer Commanding the
Malaysian Army shall be construed as references to the appropriate authority of the country to which such person belongs.
(4)
In this section references to the country to which a person belongs are references to the country from whose forces he is suspected of being or (where he has surrendered himself) appears from his confession to be a deserter or absentee without leave.