Power to employ agents
The Authority and every board and corporation may employ and pay agents and technical advisers whether advocates and solicitors, bankers, stockbrokers, surveyors or valuers or other persons, to transact any business or to do any act required to be transacted or done in the execution of the duties of the Authority, board or corporation or for the better carrying into effect the purposes of this Act and may pay all charges and expenses so incurred.
Compromise
The Authority and any board or corporation may compound or compromise for or in respect of any claim or demand made against it, for such sum of money or other compensation as it deems sufficient.
Powers of local authority
The State Authority may, from time to time, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that all or any of the powers conferred upon a local authority or the president or chairman thereof by any written law may be exercised within the area specified in such notification by the Authority or by any board or corporation or the Chairman thereof respectively: Provided that no such declaration shall be made in respect of any area in which a local authority is for the time being established.
Exemptions
(1) (Deleted by Act 478). (2) The State Authority may by order exempt the Authority and any board or corporation from any rate, tax, charge or fee leviable or recoverable by any local authority in such State in respect of any property owned by the Authority or such board or corporation on such terms and subject to such conditions as the State Authority thinks fit.
Officers to be deemed public servants
All members, officers and servants of the Authority and every board and corporation shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code [Act 574].
Public authorities protection
The Public Authorities Protection Act 1948 [Act 198], shall apply to any action, suit, prosecution or proceeding against the Authority or any board or corporation or against any member, officer, servant or agent of the Authority or any board or corporation in respect of any act, neglect or default done or committed by him in such capacity.
Protection of Authority, board and corporation
No act done or proceeding taken under this Act shall be questioned on the ground— (a) of the existence of any vacancy in the membership of, or any defect in the constitution of, the Authority or any board or corporation; or (b) of any omission, defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.
Minutes receivable in evidence
Any minutes made of meetings of the Authority or any board or corporation shall, if duly signed, be receivable in evidence in all legal proceedings without further proof and every meeting of the Authority or any board or corporation in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been so made shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all members thereat to have been duly qualified to act.
Saving
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the Authority or any board or corporation to carry on any undertaking for the supply of electricity or any railway or telecommunication undertaking except under the authority of a written law other than this Act specifically authorizing the Authority or such board or corporation in that behalf. LAWS OF MALAYSIA
Provisions on this page are reproduced verbatim from official open data. See the attribution line.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated. Read the official text ↗
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).