‘REPORT TO BE TABLED ON WEDNESDAY’
Speaker allows MPs to take report out of hall, but warns them not to share contents
THE report on the redelineation of electoral boundaries for parliamentary and state constituencies will be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday.
Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said the report had been distributed to members of the august house yesterday.
“I want to remind that all the documents cannot be published, and are embargoed until its tabling on Wednesday, March 28, 2018,” he said before the start of the Ministers’ Question Time in Parliament yesterday.
After the session, several members of the house stood up to seek clarification from Pandikar Amin on whether they could bring the report out of the assembly hall to study it.
Pandikar Amin said it could not be taken out of the hall.
“If I allow the document to be taken out, if it is published by the media or others, I’ll not know who is responsible.
“I trust you, but if I allow it to be taken out and it gets published, no one will admit (doing it).”
However, after referring to Order 95A of the Standing Orders of the Dewan Rakyat, Pandikar Amin allowed the document to be taken out of the hall.
“If anything contained in the document is published, whoever publishes it is regarded as violating the order.”
Among those who sought explanation on Pandikar Amin’s decision were Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan (Pas-Kota Baru), Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR-Lembah Pantai), Dr Lee Boon Chye (PKRGopeng), M. Kulasegaran (DAPIpoh Barat), Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin (PKR-Bukit Katil) and Datuk Mahfuz Omar (Parti Amanah Negara-Sokok Sena).