What past Bills were referred to a Select Committee before 2018?

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Bills referred to a Select Committee before 2018 included the 1961, 1974, 1984, and 2019 measures
Before 2018, only a small number of Bills were referred or committed to a Select Committee, with the documented examples including the Minor Offences (Amendment) Bill of 1961, the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Bill in 1974, the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) (Amendment) Bill in 1984, and the Independent Police Complaints of Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) Bill in 2019. A 2003 legal system textbook also stated that since Independence only five Bills had been committed to Select Committees, naming the 1974 and 1984 Bills among them. When the IPCMC Bill 2019 was referred, it was described as perhaps only the sixth since Independence.
The 1961 Minor Offences (Amendment) Bill was the first example cited since 1959
In a 1962 lecture, RH Hickling said only one important measure since the House of Representatives’ inception in 1959 had been referred to a Select Committee. He identified it as the Minor Offences (Amendment) Bill of 1961, which was described as almost two pages long.
Independence-era examples named in 1974 and 1984 were the Law Reform and Dangerous Drugs amendments
The 2003 book An Introduction to the Malaysian Legal System stated that since Independence only five Bills had been committed to Select Committees, and it specifically included the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Bill in 1974 and the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) (Amendment) Bill in 1984. These were presented as part of the small set of Bills that received ad hoc Select Committee treatment.
The IPCMC Bill 2019 was referred to a Select Committee as a rare later case
When the IPCMC Bill 2019 was referred to the Select Committee, it was described as perhaps only the sixth Parliamentary Bill referred or committed to the Select Committee since Independence. This placed the IPCMC Bill 2019 among the few pre-2018 Bills that had been singled out for that process.
Overall count before 2018 was extremely low, at five Bills in 60 years
The reporting context also stated that there had been only five Bills referred to a Select Committee in 60 years, aligning with the 2003 textbook’s count since Independence. The same passage framed the pre-2018 Select Committee referrals as rare, with the cited Bills spanning 1961, 1974, 1984, and 2019.

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