Section 5 — MALAYSIA PRODUCTIVITY CORPORATION (INCORPORATION) ACT 1966

(a)

shall, with the approval of the Minister, appoint an executive officer who shall be the Director General;

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(b)

may appoint such other officers as may be necessary on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, to the Board of Management which shall be responsible for the day to day administration and management of the affairs of the Corporation and which shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be delegated to it by the Corporation.

(1A)

The Corporation may appoint, on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, such other officers and servants as it may consider necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2)

The Corporation may with the approval of the Minister make rules―

(a)

for or in respect of the salaries, allowances and conditions of service of its officers and servants generally;

(b)

for the establishment and management of a contributory provident fund for the Director General, officers and servants appointed under this section;

(c)

for the payment of pensions, allowances or gratuities to the

Director General, officers and servants on retirement or otherwise ceasing to hold office as such Director General, officers or servants;

(d)

for the making of loans to officers and servants for the purchase of bicycles, motor cycles and motor cars and for any other purpose approved by the Minister;

(e)

for the discipline of the officers and servants which may include―

(i)

provisions for the interdiction with reduction in salary or in other remuneration, or for the suspension without salary or other remuneration, of an officer or servant during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings;

(ii)

the creating of such disciplinary offences and providing for such disciplinary punishments as the Corporation may deem appropriate, and the punishments so provided may extend to dismissal or reduction in rank; and

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(iii)

the procedure for disciplinary proceedings, which should provide an opportunity for representations to be made by an officer or servant against whom disciplinary proceedings are taken before a decision is arrived at by the disciplinary authority on the disciplinary charge to be laid against such officer or servant.

Discipline of officers and servants