Human Rights And Statelessness
I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A
Grounds
Article
registered as a citizen pursuant to this
Constitution and was so registered as being the
child of that person or of that person’s wife or
husband.
4. Conducting an
25. (1) The Federal Government may by order
act or speech of
deprive of his citizenship any person who is a
disloyalty towards the
citizen by registration under Article 16A or 17 or
Federation, assisting
a citizen by naturalization if satisfied—
an enemy country
during a war in
(a) that he has shown himself by act or speech
which the Federation
to be disloyal or disaffected towards the
was involved,
Federation;
imprisonment in
any country for 12
(b) that he has, during any war in which the
months, or a fine of
Federation is or was engaged, unlawfully
RM5,000 during the
traded or communicated with an enemy
first five years of
or been engaged in or associated with any
residence
business which to his knowledge was carried
on in such manner as to assist an enemy in
that war; or
(c) that he has, within the period of five years
beginning with the date of the registration or
the grant of the certificate, been sentenced
in any country to imprisonment for a term
of not less than twelve months or to a fine
of not less than five thousand ringgit or the
equivalent in the currency of that country,
and has not received a free pardon in
respect of the offence for which he was so
sentenced.
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