Preamble
An Act to amend the Criminal Procedure Code.
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ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows:
Short title and commencement
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AKTA KANUN TATACARA JENAYAH (PINDAAN) 2025
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Section 1
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Code
(Amendment)
Act 2025.
(2
) This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
Amendment of First Schedule
Section 2
The Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593] is amended in the First Schedule by inserting after t...
LAWS OF MALAYSIA
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE (AMENDMENT)
ACT 2025
Laws of Malaysia 4
Act A1751 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Penal
Code section
Offence
Whether the police may ordinarily arrest without warrant or not
Whether a warrant or a summons shall ordinarily issue in the first instance
Whether bailable or not
Whether compoundable or not
Maximum punishment under the
Penal Code
“507b
Causing harassment, distress, fear or alarm do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for three years, or fine, or both 507c
Causing harassment, distress, fear or alarm to a person likely to feel harassed, distressed, fear or alarmed do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for one year, or fine, or both 507d(1)
Causing a person to believe that harm will be caused do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for one year, or fine, or both 507d(2)
To provoke a person to cause harm do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for one year, or fine, or both 507d(2)
If the person attempts to commit suicide or commits suicide do.
do.
Not bailable do.
Imprisonment for ten years, or fine, or both 507e
Publishing, etc., any identity information to cause harassment, distress, fear or alarm do.
do.
Bailable do.
Imprisonment for three years, or fine, or both
Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment)
5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Penal
Code section
Offence
Whether the police may ordinarily arrest without warrant or not
Whether a warrant or a summons shall ordinarily issue in the first instance
Whether bailable or not
Whether compoundable or not
Maximum punishment under the
Penal Code 507f(1)
Publishing, etc., any identity information to cause a person to believe that harm will be caused do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for one year, or fine, or both 507f(2)
To facilitate the causing of harm do.
do.
do.
do.
Imprisonment for one year, or fine, or both”.