Section 48
Abandonment to bring claim within jurisdiction
of Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Act 2007
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Section 48
(1)
A claimant may abandon so much of a claim as exceeds fifty thousand ringgit in order to bring the claim within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal.
(2)
Where a part of a claim has been abandoned under subsection (1), the Tribunal’s record of an agreed settlement under subsection 52(3) or the Tribunal’s award under section 57, as the case may be, in relation to the claim shall operate to discharge—
(a)
the person who is a party to that agreed settlement; or
(b)
the person against whom the claim is brought and the subsequent award is made, from liability in respect of the amount so abandoned.