Akta Dadah Berbahaya (Pindaan) 2017

Akta ini mula berkuat kuasa pada tarikh yang ditetapkan oleh Menteri melalui pemberitahuan dalam Warta.

Pindaan seksyen 39b

dengan menggantikan subseksyen (2) dengan subseksyen yang berikut:

“(2)  Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall be punished on conviction with death

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or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, be punished with whipping of not less than fifteen strokes.”; dan

dengan memasukkan selepas subseksyen (2) subseksyen yang berikut:

“(2a)  In exercising the power conferred by subsection (2), the Court in imposing the sentence of imprisonment for life and whipping of not less than fifteen strokes, may have regard only to the following circumstances:

there was no evidence of buying and selling of a dangerous drug at the time when the person convicted was arrested;

there was no involvement of agent provocateur;

or

the involvement of the person convicted is restricted to transporting, carrying, sending or delivering a dangerous drug; and

that the person convicted has assisted an enforcement agency in disrupting drug trafficking activities within or outside Malaysia.

For the purposes of subsection (2a), “enforcement agency” means—

Apa-apa prosiding terhadap mana-mana orang yang telah dipertuduh, sama ada atau tidak perbicaraan telah dimulakan atau telah diselesaikan, dan belum lagi disabitkan di bawah seksyen 39b

Akta ibu oleh Mahkamah yang berwibawa sebelum tarikh yang ditetapkan, hendaklah pada tarikh yang ditetapkan dikendalikan oleh Mahkamah yang berwibawa itu dan diteruskan di bawah peruntukan Akta ibu sebagaimana yang dipinda oleh Akta ini.