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Section 75

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

Amendments
Section 75 — Original text to 1 February 2008superseded
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 areis no sections 73 andsection 74.

Section 75 — 1 February 2008 to 30 November 2008rewritten by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007
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, 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; but if he is not sentenced to imprisonment for life, he shall not in any case be liable to imprisonment for a term exceeding 15 years.

Section 75 — 30 November 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by the Revised Edition
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, 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; but if he is not sentenced to imprisonment for life, he shall not in any case be liable to imprisonment for a term exceeding 15 years.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 75]

Section 75 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
75.

[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]