PARLIAMENT | Putrajaya does not intend to amend Section 9 of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 (PAA) and reduce the mandatory police notification period for a public assembly, which currently stands at five days.

Home Minister Saiffuddin Nasution Ismail told the Dewan Rakyat that the government does not intend to do so because Section 9 was already amended in 2019, reducing the notification period to five days, down from 10 when the law was first legislated...