AI-assisted research summary: This Act amends the National Registration Act 1959 to add a definition of biometric data, allow biometric data to be taken and recorded for persons required to be registered, and create a framework for compounding certain offences.
Pendaftaran Negara (Pindaan) 1 UNDANG-UNDANG MALAYSIA Akta A1769 AKTA PENDAFTARAN NEGARA (PINDAAN) 2025 2 Undang-Undang Malaysia AktA A1769 Tarikh Perkenan Diraja ... ... 15 Oktober 2025 Tarikh penyiaran dalam Warta ... 28 Oktober 2025 Hakcipta Pencetak H PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BERHAD Semua Hak Terpelihara. Tiada mana-mana bahagian jua daripada penerbitan ini boleh diterbitkan semula atau disimpan di dalam bentuk yang boleh diperolehi semula atau disiarkan dalam sebarang bentuk dengan apa jua cara elektronik, mekanikal, fotokopi, rakaman dan/atau sebaliknya tanpa mendapat izin daripada Percetakan Nasional Malaysia Berhad (Pencetak kepada Kerajaan Malaysia yang dilantik). Pendaftaran Negara (Pindaan) 3 UNDANG-UNDANG MALAYSIA Akta A1769 AKTA PENDAFTARAN NEGARA (PINDAAN) 2025 Suatu Akta untuk meminda Akta Pendaftaran Negara 1959. [ ] DIPERBUAT oleh Parlimen Malaysia seperti yang berikut: Tajuk ringkas dan permulaan kuat kuasa 1. (1) Akta ini bolehlah dinamakan Akta Pendaftaran Negara (Pindaan) 2025. (2) Akta ini mula berkuat kuasa pada tarikh yang ditetapkan oleh Menteri melalui pemberitahuan dalam Warta. Pindaan seksyen 2 2. Akta Pendaftaran Negara 1959 [Akta 78], yang disebut “Akta ibu” dalam Akta ini, dipinda dalam seksyen 2 dengan memasukkan sebelum takrif “Director General” takrif yang berikut: ‘ “biometric data” means any personal data resulting from technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a person;’. 4 Undang-Undang Malaysia AktA A1769 Pindaan seksyen 6 3. Subseksyen 6(2) Akta ibu dipinda— (a) dengan menggantikan perenggan (d) dengan perenggan yang berikut: “(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) dalam perenggan (e), dengan memasukkan selepas perkataan “thereon” perkataan “, and their use”; dan (c) dengan memotong perenggan (j). Seksyen baharu 6a 4. Akta ibu dipinda dengan memasukkan selepas seksyen 6 seksyen yang berikut: “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. Pendaftaran Negara (Pindaan) 5 (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.”.
Referenced legislation
- Akta Pendaftaran Negara 1959 [Akta 78], (unresolved)
- Akta Pendaftaran Negara 1959 (unresolved)
- Akta Pendaftaran Negara (Pindaan) 2025 (unresolved)