Maritime laws to be harmonised, but rights of Sabah, Sarawak stay, says Loke

The Star

Maritime laws will be harmonised to ensure better uniformity throughout the nation but the government assures it will not encroach into the authorities of Sabah and Sarawak, says Anthony Loke.   The Transport Minister said that the current maritime laws need to be updated for Malaysia to stay in line with global developments and further enhance the maritime industry.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mr3wxaed  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Two, one

00:30yang perlu kita pindah

00:31seiring dengan

00:33perkembangan semasa

00:36dan juga keperluan

00:37untuk masa depan. Kerana

00:39banyak daripada

00:41undang-undang ini adalah undang-undang yang telah

00:44lama, yang tidak dipindah

00:45setiap sekian lama, yang mungkin

00:48ada banyak perkara yang

00:50tidak lagi

00:51relevant ataupun tidak mengikut

00:53perkembangan semasa.

00:56Yang perlu kita lihat kembali

00:57supaya menjadikan industri

00:59maritim negara kita lebih kompetitif.

01:02Jadi ini yang sedang dilaksanakan

01:03seperti yang saya telah umumkan pada minggu lalu

01:05jawatankuasa

01:07review ini

01:09dipenguruskan oleh Tan Sri Nalini

01:12iaitu Hakim

01:13Mahkamah Persekutuan kita

01:15yang juga merupakan seorang pakar undang-undang

01:17maritim. Dan ada

01:19terdapat ramai pakar-pakar lain yang

01:21dalam jawatankuasa itu yang akan

01:23menyumbang kepada cadangan

01:25untuk pindahan

01:27undang-undang maritim

01:29supaya dapat dibawa ke parlimen

01:31dalam tempoh setahun yang akan

01:33datang ini.

01:33We have given the

01:43committee

01:44one year to review

01:46but of course we have told them that

01:49we do not have to wait until one year

01:52to complete all the

01:54review. So whenever

01:56they are ready, we will go

01:57legislation by legislation

01:59starting with the Malaysian shipping

02:01ordinance. Once they have done the review, of course

02:03we will appoint some consultants to

02:05look at the legislation and to draft

02:07the legislation, the amendment

02:09the amendments. So once they are ready

02:11they can present to

02:14minister of transport anytime.

02:15So we hope that

02:17from this year

02:19and onwards

02:20every parliamentary

02:21sitting we will have something to

02:23bring to parliament

02:24for amendments. In fact

02:25this year

02:28end parliamentary session

02:28we will present a new bill

02:30on the MRT bill

02:32This is to create

02:34a source of power and to

02:36create a special court

02:37for maritime

02:38So this is called

02:40MRT bill

02:41Right now we

02:43do not have a special

02:44court in terms of MRT

02:45Right now what we have

02:46is only a high court

02:48but one of the high courts

02:49specialized on maritime

02:50So what we want to do is to

02:52create a bill

02:53to give

02:54puncha kuasa

02:55for MRT

02:57so that we have a more

02:59complete

03:00judiciary and

03:02interpretive system

03:03in terms of

03:04handling maritime disputes

03:06and maritime

03:06issues

03:07How are you working

03:09with the states

03:10as the maritime

03:11issues

03:12mostly the overlapping

03:13of authorities

03:14between states

03:15and national

03:16and national

03:16Actually

03:17states is basically

03:19yes you are right

03:21we have three

03:21different

03:22regimes in terms of

03:24maritime law

03:24In fact

03:25on the shipping

03:26ordinance we have

03:27three different

03:28authorities

03:28One of course

03:30MSO is only

03:31on Peninsular

03:32and then we have

03:33Sarawak and Sabah

03:34different sets of

03:35legislation

03:36That's why we have

03:37I have written

03:38and to get a consent

03:39of both

03:40state government

03:41of Sabah and Sarawak

03:42and they have sent

03:43their representative

03:44to sit in this

03:45reform committee

03:46so that we want

03:47to harmonize

03:48all the three

03:49authorities

03:50in terms of

03:52moving forward

03:52while we are not

03:54looking at

03:55to combine

03:57all the three

03:58ordinances

03:58but what we want

04:00to do is to

04:00harmonize it

04:01so that whatever

04:02policies

04:03whatever regulations

04:04it has to be

04:05consistent

04:06as a country

04:07so this is one

04:10of the challenges

04:10we know that

04:11some of the

04:11ordinances

04:12sometimes are

04:13not in tandem

04:14or not

04:15consistent with

04:16each other

04:16so that's why

04:17we need to sit

04:18down

04:19we need to

04:19discuss

04:19within that

04:20framework

04:20to harmonize

04:21it

04:22not to

04:23take over

04:23their powers

04:24so of course

04:25this is very

04:26important

04:26I want to

04:26stress that

04:27we respect

04:28the rights

04:29of Sabah

04:29and Sarawak

04:30as far as

04:31federal government

04:31as far as

04:32Minister of Transport

04:32is concerned

04:33we will

04:33continue to

04:34uphold

04:35and respect

04:35their rights

04:36over maritime

04:37in Sabah

04:38and Sarawak

04:38but what we

04:39need to do

04:40is to

04:41discuss

04:42and to

04:42harmonize

04:43this legislation

04:44so that

04:45we can

04:46move forward

04:46in a better

04:48way

04:48as a country

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