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 * 72. The following provisions are hereby repealed:


 * (a) in the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1960, section 15, paragraphs (c) and (d) of section 17, sections 18 and 20, paragraph (a) of section 21, paragraph (a) of section 25, paragraph (6) of section 27 and section 34 ; and


 * (b) in the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1962, sections 2, 3, 6 and 14 and in the Schedule sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, paragraphs 10 and 13 and sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph 14.

PART IV TRANSITIONAL AND TEMPORARY  Chapter 1—General


 * 73. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act and to any law passed or made on or after Malaysia Day, all present laws shall, on and after Malaysia Day, have effect according to their tenor, and be construed as if this Act had not been passed :


 * Provided that references to the Federation (except in relation to a time before Malaysia Day) shall be construed as references to Malaysia, and expressions importing such a reference shall be construed accordingly.


 * (2) Any present law of the Federation passed or made on or after the day this Act is passed shall extend to any part of Malaysia to which it is expressed to extend ; but save as aforesaid no present law of the Federation shall extend to a Borneo State or to Singapore, unless or until it is so extended by a law passed or made as aforesaid.


 * (3) Subject to the following provisions of this Part, the present laws of the Borneo States and of Singapore shall, on and after Malaysia Day, be treated as federal laws in so far as they are laws which could not be passed after Malaysia Day by the State Legislature, and otherwise as State laws.


 * (4) This section shall not validate or give effect to any provision contained in the present law of the Federation which is inconsistent with the Constitution, or any provision of present law which is invalid for reasons other than inconsistency with the Constitution.


 * (5) In this Part of this Act " present laws " means the laws of the Federation, of each of the Borneo States, and of Singapore passed or made before Malaysia Day, but does not include the Constitution of the Federation or any of those States or this Act.