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Part VII · General

60. Immunity

(1)

No action, suit, prosecution or other proceeding whatsoever shall lie or be brought, instituted, or maintained in any court or before any other authority against—

(a)

the Government of Malaysia or State Government;

(b)

the Commission;

(c)

any director, officer or employee of any such Government or of the Commission, either personally or in his official capacity; or

(d)

any person lawfully acting on behalf of any such

Government, Commission, officer or employee, either personally or in his capacity as a person acting on such behalf, for or on account of, or in respect of, any act done or statement made or omitted to be done or made, or purporting to be done or made or omitted to be done or made, in pursuance or in execution of, or intended pursuance or execution of, this Act, the Co-operative

Societies Act 1993 or any other written law enforced by the

Commission, or any order in writing, direction, instruction, notice or other thing whatsoever issued under this Act, the Co-operative

Societies Act 1993 or any other written law enforced by the

Commission:

Provided that such act or such statement was done or made, or was omitted to be done or made, in good faith.

(2)

For the purposes of this section—

(a)

any member of the administration of the Government of

Malaysia or a State Government shall be deemed to be an officer of the respective Government; and

(b)

the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy

Chief Executive Officer, director, member of a committee

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of the Commission, officer, employee or any person appointed by the Commission pursuant to section 9, subsections 8(2) and 10(2) and paragraph 69A (2)(a) of the

Co-operative Societies Act 1993 and any liquidator appointed under section 74 of the Co-operative Societies

Act 1993, shall be deemed to be an officer of the

Commission.

(3)

In subsection (2) “member of the administration” has the same meaning as assigned to it in Article 160(2) of the

Federal Constitution.

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