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Laws of Malaysia
Act 593
Proceedings in All Cases Subsequent to Order to Furnish Security
Commencement of period for which security is required
76. (1) If any person in respect of whom an order requiring
security is made under section 66 or 74 is, at the time the order
is made, sentenced to or undergoing a sentence of imprisonment,
the period for which the security is required shall commence on
the expiration of that sentence.
(2) In other cases such period shall commence on the date of
the order.
Contents of bond
77. (1) The bond to be executed by any person shall bind him
to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may
be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit
or the abetment of any offence punishable with imprisonment,
wherever it may be committed, is a breach of the bond.
(2) Every such bond shall enure throughout the whole of
Malaysia.
Power to reject sureties
78. A Court may in its discretion refuse to accept any particular
person or persons offered as surety for good behaviour under this
Chapter.
Imprisonment in default of security
79. (1) If any person ordered to give security under section 66,
66a or 74 does not give the security on or before the date on
which the period for which the security is to be given commences
he shall be committed to prison, or if he is already in prison
be detained in prison, until the expiration of such term as the
Court may direct or until within that term he gives the security
to the Court which made the order requiring it or to the officer
in charge of the prison in which he is detained:
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