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s 19 Cancellation of certificate
(1) The Director General of Legal Aid or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) may, at any time, and whether or not application has been made for the purpose, cancel any legal aid certificate issued under section 15 or 16 or, where so authorized by the Minister, under section 16A, and subject to subsection (2) of this section the person to whom the certificate was granted shall, as from the date of such cancellation, cease to be an aided person.
(2) Where the legal aid certificate so cancelled has been filed in the registry of any court the Director General or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) shall file in court a notification of such cancellation, and, as from the date of filing of such notification, the person to whom the legal aid certificate was granted shall cease to be an aided person.
(3) Upon the filing in court of such notification, then, unless otherwise ordered by a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending, all proceedings in the litigation shall, by virtue of this subsection, be stayed for a period of fourteen days and, subject as aforesaid, during such period, time fixed by or under any law or by or under any rules of court, regulations or otherwise for the doing of any act or the taking of any step in the proceedings shall not run.
(4) The time during which proceedings are stayed by virtue of subsection (3) of this section may be reduced or extended by order of a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending.
(5) The Director General or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) shall take such steps as seem to him reasonable or necessary to inform the person to whom a legal aid certificate has been granted of the cancellation of any such certificate.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1)/Pengarah Bantuan Guaman boleh, pada bila‹ masa, Pembatalan aan sama ada atau tıdak permohonan telah di-buat bagı perakuan, maksud itu, membatalkan mana2 perakuan bantuan guaman yang di-keluarkan di-bawah sekshen 15 atau 16 dan tertaklok kapada sekshen-kechil (2) sekshen ini orang telah di-bèri perakuan itu hendak-lah terhenti daripada A4 178 1AAGS3 menjadi sa-orang yang di-bantu mulaï dari tarikh pembatalan itu.
(2) Jika perakuan bantuan guaman yang di-batalkan itu telah di-failkan dalam pejabat pendaftaran mana2 mahkamah maka /Pengarah hendak-lah memfailkan dalam mankaman itu suatu pemberıtahu mengenai pembatalan ıtu, dan, mulai dari tarikh pemberitahu itu di-failkan, orang yang telah di-berı perakuan bantuan guaman itu hendaklah terhenti daripada menjadi sa-orang yang di-bantu. sb, AAII08/03
(3) Apabila pemberitahu itu di-failkan dalam mahkamah, maka, melaınkan jıka sa-lain-nya di-arahkan oleh hakin agi mahkamah di-mana guaman itu menünggu pertim. bangan, segala pembicharaan mengenaï guaman itu hendaklah, menurut sekshen-kechil ini, di-gantong sa-lama tempoh empat belas hari dan, tertaklok sa-bagaimana tersebut di-atas, dalam tempoh itu, masa yang di-tetapkan oleh atau di-bawah mana2 undang2 atau oleh atau di-bawah mana2 kaedah mahkamah, peratoran atau lain‹ bagi melakukan apa- perbuatan atau mengambil apa- langkah dalam pembicharaan itu tidak-lah berjalan.
[Bhg. IV, S. 19-21]
(4) Iempoh lama-nya pembıcharaan ıtu dı-gantong man ti ag limne gem ar lu nm ingrn imboangai
(5) Pengarah hendak-lah mengambil apa2 langkah yang i-fkirkan-nya menasabah atau perlu untok memberitah rang yang telah di-beri suatu perakuan bantuán guama mengenai pembatalan mana2 satu perakuan itu. Permohonan oleb lebeh daripada sntu pchak. PACe1. 46.AMIB8/03 Menchatit dan memfail perakuan. istaul 16A, zub . An1168/07 bantuan guaman di-bawah Bahagian ini berhubong dengan pembicharaan itu maka peruntokan Akta ini hendak-lah di-pakai bagi keduaz pehak itukdua Dengan sharat bahawa (Pengarah Bantuan Guaman sendiri tidak boleh bertindak bagi mana? satu pehak itu tetapi hendak-lah mnempertugaskan sa-orang peguam yang akan di-pileh oleh orang yang di-bantu,itu, jika ia berkehendak berbuat demikian, atau oleh/Pengarah daripada panel peguam- yang berkenaan yang di-senggara menurut sekshen 5 untok bertindak bagi tiap2 sa-orang yang dibantu itu.
Text as at 1 November 2013 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
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).
