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Keterangan (Pindaan) 1 D.R.

41/2011 RANG UNDANG-UNDANG b e r n a m a Suatu Akta untuk meminda Akta Keterangan 1950.

[ ] DIPERBUAT oleh Parlimen Malaysia seperti yang berikut: Tajuk ringkas, permulaan kuat kuasa dan pemakaian 1.

(1) Akta ini bolehlah dinamakan Akta Keterangan (Pindaan) 2011.

(2) Seksyen 2 mula berkuat kuasa pada tarikh yang sama dengan tarikh Akta Kanun Tatacara Jenayah (Pindaan) 2010 [Akta A1378] mula berkuat kuasa.
(3) Seksyen 3 mula berkuat kuasa pada tarikh yang ditetapkan oleh Menteri melalui pemberitahuan dalam Warta.

(4) Seksyen 3 tidak terpakai berhubung dengan prosiding jenayah yang bermula sebelum permulaan kuat kuasa seksyen itu.

2 Rang Undang-Undang Seksyen baru 73aa 2.

Akta Keterangan 1950 [Akta 56], yang disebut “Akta ibu” dalam Akta ini, dipinda dengan memasukkan selepas seksyen 73a seksyen yang berikut: “Admissibility of fact in criminal cases, etc.

73aa.
73aa.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter and subject to the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593], in any criminal proceedings, no fact whether oral or written need be proved which the parties to the proceedings have agreed to admit at the trial or which the parties to the proceedings have agreed to admit before the trial in writing.”.

Bab baru Va 3.
Bab baru Va 3.

Akta ibu dipinda dengan memasukkan selepas seksyen 90c dalam Bab V Bab yang berikut: “chapter Va ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE OBTAINED UNDER MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS REQUESTS Application of Chapter Va 90d.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, this Chapter shall apply for the purpose of determining the admissibility of evidence obtained pursuant to a request made under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002 [Act 621].
Admissibility in criminal matter of evidence obtained pursuant to requests for mutual assistance in criminal matters 90e.
(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (9), any testimony, statement or deposition, together with any document or thing exhibited or annexed to such statement or deposition, that is Keterangan (Pindaan) 3 received by the Attorney General pursuant to a request made under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002 in respect of the criminal matter, shall on its production be admitted in those criminal proceedings as evidence without further proof of any fact stated in the testimony, statement or deposition and in the document, if any, exhibited or annexed to such statement or deposition.
(2) The testimony, statement or deposition shall be taken— (a) on oath or affirmation; (b) under an obligation to tell the truth imposed, whether expressly or by implication, by or under a law of the foreign country concerned; or (c) under such caution or admonition as would be accepted, by courts in the foreign country concerned, for the purposes of giving testimony in proceedings before those courts.
(3) The testimony, statement or deposition shall— (a) be signed or certified by a judge, magistrate or officer in or of the foreign country to which the request was made; and (b) bear an official or public seal of— (i) the foreign country; or (ii) a Minister of State, or a department or officer of the government of the foreign country.
(4) A certificate by the judge, magistrate or officer referred to in subsection (3) shall, without further proof, be admitted in the proceedings as conclusive evidence of the facts contained in the certificate.

(5) All courts in Malaysia shall take judicial notice of the official or public seal referred to in subsection (3).
(6) The testimony taken under subsection (2) may be reduced to writing or be recorded on a tape, disk or other device from which sounds or images are capable of being reproduced or may be taken by means of technology that permits the virtual presence of the person in Malaysia.
4 Rang Undang-Undang (7) Where the testimony has been reduced to writing or recorded on a tape, disk or other device from which sounds or images are capable of being reproduced, the writing, tape, disk or other device shall be authenticated as provided under subsection (3).

(8) Where the testimony has been made by means of video or other means which permits the virtual presence of the person in Malaysia, that testimony shall be deemed to have been given in Malaysia.
(9) For the purposes of this Chapter, the testimony, statement or deposition need not— (a) be in the form of an affidavit; or (b) constitute a transcript of a proceeding in a foreign court.

(10) For the purpose of this Chapter, where the prosecutor seeks to adduce any testimony, statement, deposition, document or thing specified in subsection (1) as evidence in the criminal matter, the court shall not give any direction that such evidence or any part thereof is not to be adduced.
(11) In this Chapter, “criminal matter” has the meaning assigned to it under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002.

Certificate relating to foreign evidence 90f.
A certificate by the Attorney General or by a person authorized by the Attorney General to make such a certificate certifying that any testimony, statement or deposition to which such certificate is attached, together with any document or thing exhibited or annexed thereto, if any, has been received by the Attorney General pursuant to a request made under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2002 in respect of any criminal matter referred to in the certificate, shall on its production without further proof be admitted in the proceeding as conclusive evidence of the facts contained in the certificate.”.
Keterangan (Pindaan) 5 HURAIAN Rang Undang-Undang ini bertujuan untuk meminda Akta Keterangan 1950 (“Akta 56”).

2.

Fasal 1 mengandungi tajuk ringkas dan peruntukan mengenai permulaan kuat kuasa serta pemakaian Akta yang dicadangkan.

3.

Fasal 2 bertujuan untuk memasukkan seksyen baru 73aa ke dalam Akta 56.

Pindaan ini ialah pindaan berbangkit daripada kemasukan seksyen 402b dan 402c ke dalam Kanun Tatacara Jenayah.

4.
4.

Fasal 3 bertujuan untuk memasukkan Bab baru Va, yang mengandungi seksyen 90d hingga 90f, ke dalam Akta 56 untuk membuat peruntukan mengenai kebolehterimaan keterangan yang didapatkan menurut permintaan untuk bantuan bersama dalam perkara jenayah di bawah Akta Bantuan Bersama dalam Perkara Jenayah 2002 [Akta 621].

IMPLIKASI KEWANGAN Rang Undang-Undang ini tidak akan melibatkan Kerajaan dalam apa-apa perbelanjaan wang tambahan.

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