Malaysia legislation
Section 146
Section 146
(2)
The licensed operator shall submit to the Director General of
Land Public Transport a report on the accident and such report shall state what action the licensed operator proposes to take with regard to the railway 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 of Land Public Transport may, if it is not satisfied with the report submitted to it under subsection (2), form an investigation committee to inquire into the cause of the accident.
(4)
For the purposes of such inquiry, the investigation committee may summon any person to attend any meeting of the 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)
A person who under subsection (4)—
(a)
having been summoned to attend any such inquiry, fails to do so;
(b)
offers any act of disrespect or any insult or threat to the committee or any member of the committee 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, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.
Land Public Transport 147
(6)
The investigation committee shall, on completion of the inquiry, submit its report to the Director General of Land Public Transport 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