THE State Government takes note of the Sabah Law Society’s (SLS) application for a judicial review in respect of the 40pc net revenue in the form of Special Grant that Sabah is entitled to under the Federal constitution.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor said the Sabah Government sees the initiative by SLS in a positive light that is not partisan and not political in the common furtherance of the constitutional arrangements when Sabah formed Malaysia in 1963.
“The Sabah Government has been and will continue to vigorously pursue the 40pc entitlement and other legitimate rights and interests of Sabah with the Federal Government,” he said in a statement on June 10.
Last April, Hajiji said Sabah welcomed the four-fold increment of the Federal Government Special Grant for Sabah from RM26.7 million to RM125.6 million beginning this year, seeing the move as a good development for Sabah whilst the State Government continues to pursue the 40pc as agreed under the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63).
SLS on June 9 filed an application for judicial review over the disputed 40pc Special Grant to Sabah. The application was made via the court’s online registration portal, where SLS is seeking the Federal Government to honour the 40pc entitlement as stated in Article 112C and Part V of the 10th Schedule of the Federal Constitution.
SLS said the failure to carry out the review is a beach and contravention of the Federal Government’s constitutional duty as stipulated under Article 112D, Clauses (1), (3) and (4) of the Federal Constitution.
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