The Internal Security Act has finally been sent to a dustbin of history after a Dewan Rakyat upheld a replacement Bill.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Rakyat currently upheld a Security Offences (Special Measures) Bill 2012 after Deputy Speaker Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar put a matter to a voice vote. Sungai Siput MP (PSM) Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj tried to lift amendments inspiring 5 sections of a Bill.
He was a only MP in a Dewan Rakyat to do so.
Following his attempt, that was rejected by a voice vote, Parliament afterwards speedily upheld a law this afternoon.
It was presented for initial celebration of a mass last Tuesday and a second celebration of a mass yesterday.
The brand new law will replace a 52-year-old Internal Security Act. It is directed during combating terrorism, harm and espionage, but cannot be used to detain people for their domestic beliefs.
It also removes a home minister's power to extend periods of detention and provides for a right of a detained chairman to a hearing in court.
However, a Bill still has to go by a Dewan Negara and afterwards upon to Royal Assent before it can be gazetted as law.
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