00:00Mahkamah Tinggi Kucing pada Rabu memutuskan bahawa tuntutan berjumlah RM7.95 juta yang dibuat oleh Petroleum National Berhad Petronas
00:10merusi jaminan bank terhadap Petroleum Sarawak Berhad Petros adalah sah dan teratur di sisi undang-undang.
00:17Keputusan itu dibuat Hakim Dato' Fariz Ghahim Abdullah yang turut menolak saman pemula difilkan Petros
00:24serta memerintahkan syarikat itu bayar kos guaman RM50,000.
00:31Menurut peguam yang mewakili Petronas, Dato' Cyrus Das mahkamah menegaskan bahawa isu utama yang diputuskan
00:38hanyalah sama ada tuntutan terhadap jaminan bank tersebut adalah sah atau sebaliknya.
00:43Ini bermakna Petros tidak boleh menuntut semula wang RM7.95 juta yang telah dibayar melalui jaminan bank tersebut.
00:54Petronas has been held to be valid and that the Leonard judge also held that Petros
01:01had failed to prove that the call on the bank guarantee was unconscionable or that it was
01:06unlawful. Insofar as the constitutional issues are concerned, the Leonard judge was of the
01:12view that those are matters that fell outside the scope of the originating summons and that
01:18the proper forum for it to be decided on the constitutionality of the two rival laws,
01:23so to speak, the PDA which is federal law and the DGO which is Sarawak law should be done
01:30in the federal court. So that is today's decision.
01:34Pada masa sama, Hakim tidak mahu membuat keputusan berhubung isu undang-undang yang
01:38lebih luas termasuk persoalan sama ada Akta Pembangunan Petroleum 1974 atau Ordinan Pengagihan
01:45Gas 2016 yang terpakai dalam pertikaian tersebut. Menurutnya perkara itu merupakan isu
01:50perlembagaan yang wajar diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan. Sehubungan itu,
01:55Mahkamah tidak meneliti kesahihan kontrak pembekalan gas Sarawak antara Petros dan
02:00Petronas memandangkan isu tersebut tidak diperincikan dalam pleading kes.
02:04Sementara itu, isu perlembagaan berkaitan kesahan dua undang-undang berkenaan akan dibawa
02:09ke Mahkamah Persekutuan dengan permohonan kebenaran dijaduakan pada 16 Mac ini.
02:15That's right. On the 16th of March, Petronas is applying for leave to take up the issue
02:20in the federal court. I believe it is being opposed. So that's where the forum is going
02:26to be in the federal court. And I think you know that Sarawak has since filed its own petition
02:33and I think that will also have to come up. So basically the questions of the constitutionality
02:38of the laws, that is the PDA 1974 which is federal law and the DGO 2016 which is Sarawak
02:45law, will all be decided in the federal court.
02:49Sementara itu, penasihat Undang-Undang Sarawak, Datuk Seri J. C. Fong berkata, isu perlembagaan
02:54kini akan ditentukan oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan memandangkan Mahkamah Tinggi
02:58enggan membuat keputusan mengenainya dalam kes komersial tersebut.
03:19Kes ini dijangka terus mendapat perhatian memandangkan ia menyentuh persoalan
03:23bidang kuasa antara Undang-Undang Persekutuan dan negeri dalam industri minyak dan gas.
03:30Terima kasih kerana menonton!
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