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Laws of Malaysia
Act 574
Fractions of terms of punishment
57. In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for
life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for thirty years.
58. (There is no s. 58).
59–60. (Deleted by F.M. Ord. 14 of 1953).
61–62. (There are no ss. 61–62).
63–64. (Deleted by F.M.S. En. 1 of 1936).
65. (There is no s. 65).
66−70. (Deleted by F.M.S. En. 1 of 1936).
Limit of punishment of offence which is made up of several
offences
71. (1) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts,
any of which parts is itself an offence, the offender shall not be
punished with the punishment of more than one of such of his
offences, unless it be so expressly provided.
(2) Where anything is an offence falling within two or more
separate definitions of any law in force for the time being by which
offences are defined or punished, or where several acts of which
one or more than one would by itself or themselves constitute an
offence constitute when combined a different offence the offender
shall not be punished with a more severe punishment than the
Court which tries him could award for any one of such offences.
ILLUSTRATIONS
(a) A gives Z fifty strokes with a stick. Here A may have committed
the offence of voluntarily causing hurt to Z by the whole beating, and
also by each of the blows which make up the whole beating. If A were
liable to punishment for every blow, he might be imprisoned for fifty
years, one for each blow. But he is liable only to one punishment for
the whole beating.