Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar says the motion must be referred to the Sarawak Consultative Committee on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 before it can be brought to the assembly. FMTNews Sarawak
KUCHING: Sarawak legislative assembly speaker Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar today dismissed an assemblyman’s motion for the state government to reveal the full settlement terms with Petronas on Sarawak’s sales tax for petroleum products.
“The state’s concession to expressly accept that all previous agreements between the two parties made under the Petroleum Development Act 1974 are still valid and enforceable, and that Petronas is still recognised as having full ownership and control over national oil and gas development in line with the Federal Constitution, are concessions made in contravention of the desires, demands, decisions and resolutions of this August House and of Sarawakians, is unacceptable by this Dewan.
She added that it would compromise the state’s rights in bringing up the issue of its legality in favour of the state. She said the committee last met in September and had parted on the understanding that the state government should pursue the matter in court, in the event that the federal government failed to pay the sales tax by October.
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