Speaker belum terima sebarang usul hudud

pendeta · Post time 8-9-2015 09:12 AM

Speaker says yet to receive any hudud notice to Parliament

BY MAYURI MEI LIN

Monday September 7, 2015
11:05 AM GMT+8

UPDATED:
September 07, 2015
12:55 PM GMT+8

Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Pandikar Amin Mulia said that the next parliamentary session will not be for another month. — Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said today that he has not received any notice on hudud by the opposition just yet.

Pandikar added, however, that the next parliamentary session will not be for another month.

“I have not received any motion from them because Parliament will be in session in October… it’s still a long time to go, long time from now,” he said when met at the sidelines of the 36th General Assembly of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.

PAS is seeking to implement the Islamist penal code in Kelantan that it introduced as a state law decades ago, but which it cannot yet impose due to legal and constitutional restrictions.

The Islamist party is aiming to overcome these by amending the Shariah Court Act (Criminal Jurisdiction) 1965 or Act 355, which currently limits the Shariah courts to fines of up to RM3,000, five years’ jail and six strokes of caning.

PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang had this year twice tabled a private member’s Bill in Parliament, but which was not debated on both occasions due to a lack of time in the parliamentary sittings.

A group of citizens also filed for an injunction in June to prevent Parliament from tabling the Bill.

The injunction bid is against Pandikar, Deputy Speakers Datuk Ronald Kiandee and Datuk Ismail Mohamad Sai, and Dewan Rakyat Secretary Datuk Roosme Hamzah.

Hadi has since then filed an application to strike out the injunction bid and the High Court in Kuala Lumpur is expected to hear Hadi’s application on September 28.

The next Parliamentary session is expected to be on October 19.

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