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National Registration (Amendment)

1 LAWS OF MALAYSIA NATIONAL REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2025 2 Laws of Malaysia Date of Royal Assent ... ... 15 October 2025 Date of publication in the ... ... 28 October 2025 Gazette Publisher’s Copyright C PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BERHAD All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior permission of Percetakan Nasional Malaysia Berhad (Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia). National Registration (Amendment)

An Act to amend the National Registration Act 1959. [ ] ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows: Short title and commencement

This Act may be cited as the National Registration

(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 section 2

The National Registration Act 1959 [Act 78], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in...

‘ “biometric data” means any personal data resulting from technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a person;’. LAWS OF MALAYSIA NATIONAL REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2025 4 Laws of Malaysia Amendment of section 6

Subsection 6(2) of the principal Act is amended—

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(a) by substituting for paragraph (d) the following paragraph: “(d) the taking and recording of biometric data of persons required to be registered and the conditions which may be imposed on the taking and recording of biometric data;”;

(b) in paragraph (e), by inserting after the word “thereon” the words “, and their use”; and

(c) by deleting paragraph (j). New section 6a

The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 6

the following section: “Compounding of offences 6a.  (1)  The Minister may, with the approval of the Public Prosecutor, make regulations prescribing—

(a) any offence under any regulations made under this Act as an offence which may be compounded; and

(b) the method and procedure for compounding such offence.

(2) The Director General may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, at any time before a prosecution is being instituted, compound any offence prescribed as an offence which may be compounded by making a written offer to the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence to compound the offence upon payment to the Director General of a sum of money not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of the maximum fine to which the person would have been liable to if he had been convicted of the offence, within such time as may be specified in the written offer. National Registration (Amendment)

(3) An offer under subsection (2) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed but before any prosecution for it has been instituted.

(4) If the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended time as the Director General may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.

(5) Where an offence has been compounded under this section—

(a) no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made; and

(b) any document or thing seized in connection with the offence may be released by the Director General, subject to such terms as the Director General thinks fit.

(6) All sums of money received by the Director General under this section shall be paid into and form part of the Federal Consolidated Fund.”.