Selangor Nationality Enactment 1952

The Ruler in Council may by regulations make provision generally for carrying into effect the purposes of this Enactment, and in particular –

(a) for prescribing anything which under this Enactment may be prescribed;

(b) for the registration of anything required or authorised under this Enactment to be registered;

(c) for prescribing forms of declaration, for the administration and taking of oaths, for the time within which such oaths shall be taken and for the registration of such oaths;

(d) for the giving of any notice required or authorised to be given to any person under this Enactment;

(e) for the procedure to be followed by persons applying for registration or for certificates of naturalisation under this Enactment, the evidence to be required from such persons as to their qualifications for the status of a subject of the Ruler, including evidence of ability to speak the Malay or English language with reasonable proficiency and for imposing penalties for requiring any consideration for supplying any reference that may be required by any prescribed form;

(f) for the issue of certified copies of documents made, and extracts from registers kept, under this Enactment, for the cancellation and amendment of entries in a register and of certificates and of certified copies of entries in a register and of certificates prepared under this Enactment and relating to persons who lose the status of a subject of the Ruler under this Enactment, and for requiring such documents to be delivered up for those purposes;

(g) for the imposition and recovery of fees in respect of any application made under this Enactment or in respect of any registration, or the making of any declaration, or the grant of any certificates, or the taking of any oath, authorised to be made, granted or taken by or under this Enactment, and in respect of supplying a certified or other copy of any notice, certificate, order, declaration or entry given, granted or made as aforesaid; and for the application of any such fees;

(h) for the issue of certificates that a person has produced prima facie proof that he is a subject of the Ruler by operation of law;

(i) for the delegation  of any of the power conferred by this Enactment;

(j) for the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with references under this Enactment to a committee of inquiry; and, in particular for conferring on any such committee any powers, rights or privileges of any court, and for enabling any powers so conferred to be exercised by one or more members of the committee; and

(k) for prescribing penalties, not exceeding two thousand dollars, for the breach of any of the provisions of such regulations.