00:00The federal court has granted Petronas leave to challenge the constitutionality of several ordinances passed by Sarawak Governing Oil and
00:08Gas Matters in the state.
00:09Chief Judge of Malaya Hashim Hamza, sitting as a single judge, made the decision after hearing submissions from Petronas' lawyers
00:17Cyrus Das and Ku Guan Huat,
00:20Sarawak Attorney General Saferi Ali and the state government's legal counsel JC Fong.
00:26The judge said Petronas had met the threshold for the APEX court to hear its petition.
00:31Earlier, Das argued that amendments passed by the Sarawak Assembly to the distribution of gas ordinance and the oil and
00:38mining ordinance
00:39had violated various provisions of the Ninth Schedule to the federal constitution.
00:44Das said the state enactments had unlawfully touched on treaties, trade, development of mineral resources,
00:51as well as the production and distribution of power and energy.
00:56Only the Dewan Rakyat could legislate on those issues, he said.
01:00The senior lawyer said amendments to the DGO in 2023 effectively made Sarawak's own petroleum company Petros,
01:08the sole gas aggregator in the state, replacing Petronas.
01:12Meanwhile, Fong opposed the bid saying the application should have been filed in the High Court.
01:17He also claimed the state assembly had acted within its jurisdiction.
01:22Hashim ordered Petronas to file its petition within 21 days.
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