DANGEROUS DRUGS (FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY) ACT 1988 (ACT 340) - As at 10 June 1988

by CLJ-Publication

Publisher - Current Law Journal

Category - Law

An Act to make provisions for offences in relation to property, and for the seizure and forfeiture of property, connected with activity related to offences under this Act, the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, or any foreign law corresponding to these Acts or to the provisions for offences under these Acts; for assistance to foreign countries in relation to matters connected with dangerous drugs; and for matters connected with the aforesaid provisions. [10 June 1988] WHEREAS action has been taken and further similar action is being threatened by a substantial body of persons both inside and outside Malaysia- (1) to organize and carry out trafficking in dangerous drugs, including their importation into and exportation from Malaysia; (2) to spread the dependence on dangerous drugs among various classes of people in Malaysia, thereby causing widespread detriment to public health, security, safety and morals; and (3) to acquire property by trafficking in dangerous drugs and to utilise property for such trafficking; AND WHEREAS the action taken and threatened is prejudicial to public order in Malaysia; AND WHEREAS Parliament considers it necessary to stop such action; Now, therefore, pursuant to Article 149 of the Constitution BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows.

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