This work is in the public domain in Malaysia because the work is legally exempted from copyright.

Section 3 of the Copyright Act 1987 (Act 332, amended up to Act A1645), which enumerates the definitions, implicitly excludes several written works from protection by not treating them as "literary works". The section excludes the following works from copyright protection:

• official texts of the Government
• official texts of statutory bodies of a legislative or regulatory nature
• judicial decisions
• political speeches and political debates
• speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings, and the official translation thereof.

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This work is in the public domain in the U.S. because it is an edict of a government, local or foreign. See § 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, 3rd ed. 2014 (Compendium (Third)). Such documents include "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials."