Malaysia legislation
Section 33
Section 33
The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 65
the following sections:
“Limitation for action in respect of skills training loan or skills training financial assistance agreement 65a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, any action in respect of a skills training loan or skills training financial assistance agreement shall not be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
Power of Chief Executive to issue certificate to the Director
General of Immigration 65b. (1) The Chief Executive may, where he is of the opinion that any loan recipient or financial assistance recipient is about or likely to leave Malaysia without paying any moneys due to the Corporation, whether in the form of repayment or return or otherwise, issue to the Director General of Immigration a certificate containing the amount payable to the Corporation with a request for that loan recipient or financial assistance recipient to be prevented from leaving Malaysia unless and until he pays all the amounts payable to the Corporation or furnishes security to the satisfaction of the Chief Executive for his payment.
(2)
Subject to any order issued or made under any written law relating to immigration, the Director General of
Immigration upon receiving a request under subsection (1) in respect of any loan recipient or financial assistance recipient shall take or cause to be taken all such measures as may be necessary to give effect to it and which measures may include the use of reasonable force and the seizure, removal or retention of any certificate of identity and any passport, or other travel document relating to that loan recipient or financial assistance recipient.
(3)
Where a loan recipient or financial assistance recipient in respect of whom a certificate has been issued under subsection (1) produces a written statement signed on or after the date of the issuance of the certificate by the Chief
Executive to the effect that moneys due to the Corporation specified in the certificate have been paid or that security has been furnished for their payment, the statement or the payment, as the case may be, shall be sufficient authority for allowing that loan recipient or financial assistance recipient to leave Malaysia.”.
Deletion of Part X