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AKTA PASPORT (PINDAAN) 2026

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Passports (Amendment) 1 LAWS OF MALAYSIA PASSPORTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2026 Bill 2 Date of Royal Assent ... ... 27 February 2026 Date of publication in the ... ... 13 March 2026 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). Passports (Amendment) 3 LAWS OF MALAYSIA PASSPORTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2026

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An Act to amend the Passports Act 1966. [ ] ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows: Short title and commencement

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1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Passports (Amendment) Act 2026.

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(2) This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette. Amendment of section 2

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2. The Passports Act 1966 [Act 150] is amended in section 2—

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(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after the words “shall produce to an immigration officer” the words “or provide through an automated system,”; and

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(b) in subsection (2), by inserting after the words “produce to that officer” the words “or provide through an automated system,”.