THE Attorney-General will expedite amendments to statutory rape laws to end the discretionary sentencing powers by the courts, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.
“The Government has given the green light for the A-G to expedite amendments to Section 376 of the Penal Code so that discretionary powers under the particular section is not used,” he told the Dewan Rakyat in his winding-up speech during the Budget 2013 debate yesterday.
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