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Section 75 — Punishment of persons convicted, after a previous conviction, of an offence punishable with 3 years’ imprisonment

As in force on 12 November 1993.

Timeline 6 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 12 November 1993 You are here
  3. 15 May 1998 Act 18 of 1998
  4. 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
  5. 30 November 2008 Revised edition
  6. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
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75.Punishment of persons convicted, after a previous conviction, of an offence punishable with 3 years’ imprisonment

Whoever, having been convicted of an offence punishable under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII with imprisonment for a term of 3 years or upwards, or having been convicted in any part of Malaysia or in Brunei Darussalam of an offence of a nature similar to any of those offences, is guilty of any offence punishable under either of those Chapters with imprisonment for a term of 3 years or upwards, shall be subject for every such subsequent offence to imprisonment, for life, or to double the amount of punishment to which he would otherwise have been liable for the same:

Provided that he shall not in any case be liable to imprisonment for a term exceeding 10 years.

There are no sections 73 and 74.