Malaysia legislation
Section 8
Section 8
The Schedule to the principal Act is amended—
(a)
in Part I—
(i)
in paragraph 1—
(A)
by substituting for subparagraph (2)
the following subparagraph:
“(2) The members of the Board representing the media organizations shall hold office as representatives of their media organizations.”; and
(B)
by substituting for subparagraph (3)
the following subparagraph:
“(3) Four members of the Board representing the Government of Malaysia shall be the representatives from the
Ministry charged with the responsibility for communications and the Ministry charged with the responsibility for foreign affairs.”;
(ii)
by substituting for subsubparagraph 3(2)(a)
the following subsubparagraph:
“(a) a member representing a media organization, such member of the Board shall vacate his office if he ceases to be associated with the media organization which he has represented, or on the media organization he has represented ceasing to be a subscriber to BERNAMA; and”;
(iii)
by substituting for subparagraph 4(1) the following subparagraph:
“(1) The following procedures shall be adopted for filling vacancies on the Board arising from any of the reasons enumerated in paragraph 3:
(a)
in the case of a member representing the media organization, the appointment for the purpose of filling any vacancy shall be made on the recommendation of the media organization whose representative has vacated his post; and
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(b)
in the case of a vacancy arising through a media organization whose representative is represented on the Board ceasing to be a subscriber to BERNAMA, the remaining media organizations which are subscribers to BERNAMA shall make a r e c o m m e n d a t i o n t o t h e
Yang di-Pertuan Agong.”; and
(iv)
in subparagraph 5(4), by substituting for the words
“proprietors of newspapers” the words
“media organizations”; and
(b)
in Part II, in subparagraph 3(2), by substituting for the words “ a newspaper, radio or television subscriber”
the words “a subscriber”.