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Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair

Sedition Act 1948 was adopted by the British rulers from existing 19th Century legislation from colonial India into the then Malaya before independence. Its purpose was to combat threats from Communists insurgency.1 The Sedition Act originated as an Enactment (Enactment 13/1939), then as an Ordinanc...

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Main Authors: Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz, Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Law 2016
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K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
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spelling my.uitm.ir.218182021-11-17T04:27:24Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21818/ Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence Sedition Act 1948 was adopted by the British rulers from existing 19th Century legislation from colonial India into the then Malaya before independence. Its purpose was to combat threats from Communists insurgency.1 The Sedition Act originated as an Enactment (Enactment 13/1939), then as an Ordinance (Ordinance 14/1948) and later amended and passed as the Sedition Act (Act 15/1970), which was enforced on 14th April 1970.2 The act since then has gone through two major amendments. The first amendment introduced provisions relating to the protection of Bumiputera’s special position under the Federal Constitution, the monarchy and the preeminent position of the national language. The second amendment both restricted and expanded the seditious definition by removing seditious acts against the government and judiciary while adding seditious act relating to religion and talks of secession. Faculty of Law 2016 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21818/1/PPb_MOHD%20HAFIZ%20RAMLEE%20LW%2016_5.pdf ID21818 Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz and Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan (2016) Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
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Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz
Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan
Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
description Sedition Act 1948 was adopted by the British rulers from existing 19th Century legislation from colonial India into the then Malaya before independence. Its purpose was to combat threats from Communists insurgency.1 The Sedition Act originated as an Enactment (Enactment 13/1939), then as an Ordinance (Ordinance 14/1948) and later amended and passed as the Sedition Act (Act 15/1970), which was enforced on 14th April 1970.2 The act since then has gone through two major amendments. The first amendment introduced provisions relating to the protection of Bumiputera’s special position under the Federal Constitution, the monarchy and the preeminent position of the national language. The second amendment both restricted and expanded the seditious definition by removing seditious acts against the government and judiciary while adding seditious act relating to religion and talks of secession.
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author Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz
Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan
author_facet Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz
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title Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
title_short Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
title_full Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
title_fullStr Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
title_full_unstemmed Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
title_sort sedition act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / mohd hafiz ramlee and muhammad ihsan norkhair
publisher Faculty of Law
publishDate 2016
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