Liew: 113 laws need to be amended under 11MP

Liew: 113 laws need to be amended under 11MP

Published on: Friday, October 26, 2018

Kuala Lumpur: A total of 113 laws will be prepared, meet the targets of the Harapan's general election manifesto and the 11th Malaysia Plan, said Datuk Liew Vui Keong (pic).

The laws include the abolition of the death penalty.

"Part of these laws will be tabled in the current Parliament session and the coming session.

"The remaining parts of the laws will be determined by the respective ministries," Minister in the Prime Minister's Office of the Minister of the Department of Justice.

The Act also includes the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (Act 234), the Bill 2018 Industrial Co-ordination Amendment, the 1948 Sedition Act, the 1959 Prevention of Crime Act, and the 2015 Prevention of Terrorism Act.

Liew said the list was the outcome of several briefings of one of the representatives of all the ministries on Oct. 4, another by ministers and deputy ministers on Tuesday and a meeting with the Backbenchers Council yesterday.

"The proposed list to update the laws of the United States of America on the basis of the Pakatan Harapan manifesto and the mid-term review of the 11th Malaysia Plan," he said, adding that the list was not finalized and would be updated from time to time.

Earlier, the United Nations, Liew told reporters that he would write to the Singapore government that he commutes the death sentence of Malaysian Prabu Pathmanathan, who was scheduled to be executed tomorrow, to life s doing.

Prabu, 31, was sentenced to death for committing several acts involving the trafficking of 227.82g of heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014.

The de facto law minister said he would also get the Foreign Ministry's help on the issue.

Lawyers for Liberty adviser N. Surendran urged Putrajaya to make "urgent and strenuous" efforts to save Prabu from the gallows.

Surendran said Prabu's family had been informed that the execution would be held at Changi Prison tomorrow.

"The family was only informed of the Friday hanging on Oct 20 via a letter from the Singapore Prison Services, which is less than one week's notice," he said.

"In the same letter, the family is asked to make the necessary funeral arrangements."

According to Surendran, there were doubts surrounding Prabu's belief, adding that the drugs were found in a vehicle driven by another person.

The Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign also called the Singapore government to halt the execution.