Sabah’s 40% revenue rights: State govt intervenes in Federal Govt appeal

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The Sabah state government threw a surprise on Thursday (May 16) when it intervened in the Federal Attorney General's appeal against the High Court decision to grant the Sabah Law Society (SLS) leave to challenge the 40% Special Interim Grant provisions.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2276xham  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Sabah government threw a surprise when it intervened in the Federal Attorney General's

00:07appeal against the High Court decision to grant the Sabah Law Society SLS leave to challenge

00:13the 40% special interim grant provisions.

00:17Reporters were later told that if the Sabah government did not intervene then, there was

00:22a risk that its rights to challenge the federal government could be extinguished without ever

00:27being heard.

00:28The three-member Court of Appeal panel granted the Sabah government's application to be an

00:33intervener and co-appellant in the appeal against the leave granted to the SLS by the

00:38Kota Kinabalu High Court on Thursday.

00:40It will decide on whether SLS will proceed with its judicial review on the state's 40%

00:46revenue rights until May 24 for case management.

00:50The issue refers to Sabah's claim to the return of the net revenue collected by the federal

00:55government in the state as enshrined in the federal constitution.

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