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1 -1. Short title and application.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 1953 .

(2) This Act shall apply to the States of West Malaysia only.

[Am. by P.U.(A) 407/1991, 408/1991]

2 -2. Abolition of penal servitude, rigorous and simple imprisonment.

(1) No person shall be sentenced by a Court to penal servitude; and every law conferring power on a Court to pass a sentence of penal servitude in any case shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term of penal servitude for which a sentence could have been passed in that case immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(2) No person shall be sentenced by a Court to rigorous imprisonment or to simple imprisonment; and every law conferring power on a Court to pass a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description, shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the term for which a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description could have been passed in that case immediately before the commencement this Act.

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3 -3. Life sentences.

Where any person is treated as having been sentenced or is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for life, such sentence shall be deemed for all purposes to be a sentence of imprisonment for thirty years.

[Am. by Act A1302]

4 -4. Abolition of whipping with cat-o'-nine tails, etc .

No person shall be sentenced by a Court to whipping with a cat-o'-nine tails; and every law conferring power on a Court to pass a sentence of whipping with a cat-o'nine tails, or whipping, shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of whipping with a rattan.

5 -5. (Omitted) .

6 -6. (Omitted) .