Lock-up Rules -- Adopt the drafting style of Penal Code

The Lock-up Rules 1953 is a piece of pre-Merdeka subsidiary legislation.

As for any pre-Merdeka legislation, the authoritative text is in English.
At the Police Cadet School, the Police rank-and-file are trained in the National Language.

The National Language version of Rule 9A is as following:
Kaedah 9A: Gunting Rambut
"Tiap-tiap banduan, kecuali seorang Sikh yang biasa menyimpan rambut panjang atas alasan keagamaan, hendaklah waktu masuk digunting rambutnya pendek-pendek. "

The Attorney General's Chambers should reconcile the Lock-up Rules and the Prisons Regulation 2000.

Rule 17(3) of the Prisons Regulation 2000 provided:
"The hair of unconvicted prisoners shall be kept, as far as cleanliness permits, in the same state as it was on admission"

It is submitted the AG's Chambers should adopt the drafting style of Penal Code and Evidence Act by inserting illustration.

Such illustration may sounds as following:
"Person with head lice or other head skin disease, which is contagious in nature, shall be
shave bald"

Come on, you don't expect the police constable to apply the literal or purposive interpretation on the lock-up rules.

On the legal argument, Roger Tan has put this succintly in his article to New Straits Times http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/content/view/2383/2/