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Employment law in Malaysia

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

367 matching statutes

  • Malaysia

    A1452 - AKTA BINATANG (PINDAAN) 2013

    2 provisions

    This amendment act tightens animal import/export controls, requires licences or permits for listed goods, expands enforcement powers, and updates offences and penalties.

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  • Malaysia

    606 - OPTICAL DISCS ACT 2000

    2 provisions

    This Act requires people manufacturing optical discs to be licensed and follow marking, recordkeeping, and conduct rules, with offences and penalties for non-compliance.

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  • Malaysia

    608 - AKTA KEWANGAN (NO. 2) 2000

    1 provisions

    This Act amends Malaysia’s income tax, petroleum income tax, real property gains tax, and stamp duty laws, including new deductions, rebates, penalties, and commencement rules.

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  • Malaysia

    438 - *FREE ZONES ACT 1990

    2 provisions

    This Act creates free zones in Malaysia and sets the rules for goods, activities, records, access, and customs enforcement inside them.

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  • Malaysia

    813 - *DEPARTURE LEVY ACT 2019

    2 provisions

    This Act imposes a departure levy on people leaving Malaysia and sets registration, recordkeeping, return, payment, refund, and offence rules.

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  • Malaysia

    764 - FINANCE (NO. 2) ACT 2014

    1 provisions

    This Act amends Malaysia’s Income Tax Act 1967, Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967, and Real Property Gains Tax Act 1976, including tax rates, due dates, assessment rules, and some special tax treatment provisions.

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  • Malaysia

    736 - *PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ACT 2012

    1 provisions

    This Act gives citizens a right to assemble peaceably and without arms, but it also sets notification, consent, conduct, and police-control rules.

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  • Malaysia

    785 - AKTA KEWANGAN 2017

    2 provisions

    This Act amends several tax laws, including new tax offences, relief procedures, deductions, and updated definitions.

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  • Malaysia

    62 - *AUDIT ACT 1957

    1 provisions

    This Act sets out how Malaysia’s Auditor General audits public accounts and related bodies, and gives the Auditor General reporting, access, and guideline-making powers.

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  • Malaysia

    103 - *ENTERTAINMENTS DUTY ACT 1953

    1 provisions

    This Act imposes entertainments duty on payments for admission to entertainments and gives the Collector powers to assess, collect, inspect, seize, arrest, and enforce compliance.

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  • Malaysia

    364 - FINANCE ACT 1988

    1 provisions

    This Act amends several tax statutes, adds rules on entertainment and agricultural-project deductions, and repeals the Share (Land Based Company) Transfer Tax Act 1984 with savings.

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  • Malaysia

    624 - AKTA KEWANGAN (NO.2) 2002

    1 provisions

    This Act amends several tax and stamp-duty laws, including rules on income tax rates, document retention, director liability, and Labuan offshore taxation.

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  • Malaysia

    127 - *ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT 1974

    3 provisions

    This Act sets up Malaysia’s environmental pollution control system, including licensing, the Director General’s powers, and bans on unlicensed pollution and open burning.

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  • Malaysia

    97 - PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1959

    2 provisions

    This Act sets out how probate and letters of administration are granted, how executors and administrators may act, and when the court can impose conditions, require security, or revoke grants.

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