Malaysia legislation
Section 46
Section 46
(2)
The railway company shall submit to the Director
General a report on the accident and such report shall state what action the company proposes to take with regard to the officials responsible for the accident or for the revision of the rules or system of working and, if an inquiry has been held under subsection (1), a report on the inquiry.
(3)
The Director General may, if he is not satisfied with the report submitted to him under subsection (2), and with the approval of the Minister, form a committee of investigation to inquire into the cause of the accident.
(4)
For the purposes of such inquiry, the committee of investigation may summon any person to attend any meeting of the said committee to give evidence on oath or produce any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession related to the matters which are the subject matter of such inquiry.
(5)
Any person who, under subsection (4)—
(a)
having been summoned to attend any such inquiry, fails to do so;
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(b)
offers any act of disrespect or any insult or threat to the committee or any member thereof during an inquiry; or
(c)
having been required by the committee to give evidence on oath or to produce a document or other thing, refuses to do so or gives false evidence or produces a document or any other thing which he knows to be false, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
(6)
The committee of investigation shall, on completion of the inquiry, submit its report to the Director General and such report shall state the opinion of the committee as to the cause of the accident and the full particulars of the case.
Minister may order inquiry