Covid-19 measures: legally ill-equipped but all is not lost
Since the prime minister referred to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease Act 1988 in his announcement on Monday night, from the legal standpoint, two things must follow:
Rightly, concerns were raised that the exodus from the Klang Valley, where most of the Covid-19 cases are, would only help to spread the disease further. Given the scare and the experience, the IDA was further looked at with amendments proposed in late 2017 and passed in early 2008. In all honesty, the PCIDA as the principal legislation that provides for the prevention and control of infectious diseases in Malaysia is outdated.
Made under a principal Act of Parliament – Public Health Act 1984 – the Health Protection Regulations 2020 was laid before Parliament on February 10 and immediately came into force.
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