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[ In accordance with section 3 and the First Schedule certain sections are to be inserted in, and become Articles of, the Constitution; any such section is distinguished in the text of the Act by a marginal note giving its number as an Article of the Constitution; the Articles are listed in order in the First Schedule.]

DRAFT OF A BILL

intituled


 * An Act for Malaysia.

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 * WHEREAS on behalf of the Federation it has been agreed, among other things, that the British colonies of North Borneo and Sarawak and the State of Singapore shall be federated with the existing States of the Federation as the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, and that the name of the Federation should thereafter be Malaysia;


 * AND WHEREAS, to give effect to the agreement, it is necessary to amend the Constitution of the Federation so as to provide for the admission of those States and for matters connected therewith;


 * AND WHEREAS the Conference of Rulers has consented to the passing of this Act in so far as it amends Articles 38 and 153 of the Constitution or otherwise affects the privileges, position, honours or dignities of their Highnesses:


 * NOW, THEREFORE, be it enacted by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Ra'ayat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

PART I

PRELIMINARY 


 * 1. This Act may be cited as the Malaysia Act, 1963.


 * 2. Except in so far as the contrary intention appears, this Act shall come into force on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixty-three (in this Act referred to as "Malaysia Day").