Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair

• Main Authors: Ramlee, Mohd Hafiz, Norkhair, Muhammad Ihsan
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Law 2016
• Subjects: K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21818/1/PPb_MOHD%20HAFIZ%20RAMLEE%20LW%2016_5.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21818/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Sedition Act 1948 was adopted by the British rulers from existing 19th Century legislation from colonial India into the then Malaya before independence. Its purpose was to combat threats from Communists insurgency.1 The Sedition Act originated as an Enactment (Enactment 13/1939), then as an Ordinanc...