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s 30 Arbitrator to decide when parties fail to agree
(1) If any question arises under this Act which a workman, his employer and the Commissioner cannot settle by agreement under section 27, such question shall be decided by an Arbitrator.
(2) A question is not settled by agreement unless the workman, the employer and the Commissioner all signify their consent by signing an acknowledgment of agreement or unless an agreement between the workman and the employer is recorded by the Commissioner under section 28.
(3) An application for the settlement of any question which is addressed to an Arbitrator shall contain a certificate by the Commissioner that he has held an inquiry under section 27 and that agreement has not been reached.
(4) An application requesting the decision of an Arbitrator on any question may be drawn up and submitted to an Arbitrator by a workman, by the employer, by the Commissioner on behalf of a workman or by the Commissioner of his own motion, or by any person aggrieved by any decision of the Commissioner under section 8, 10, 14 or 15.
(5) An application to an Arbitrator for the settlement of any question shall be made in such form and shall be accompanied by such fee, if any, as may be prescribed and shall contain, in addition to any particulars which may be prescribed and to the certificate under subsection (3), a concise statement of the circumstances in which the application is made and of the relief or order which the applicant seeks and of the questions on which agreement both has and has not been reached:
Provided that the payment of fees shall be waived when the Commissioner makes an application either of his own motion or on behalf of a workman.
(6) The Commissioner shall, at the request of any person applying for the same and upon payment of the prescribed fees, supply to him a copy of his records together with a copy of any relevant correspondence and shall authenticate the same.
(7) If in the course of an inquiry held by the Commissioner under section 27 the workman and the employer and the Commissioner all agree on any question and the Commissioner records the agreement in writing, that question shall not be submitted to an Arbitrator.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Jika mana-mana persoalan berbangkit di bawah Penimbang- Akta ini yang pekerja, majikannya dan Pesuruhjaya tara tidak dapat menyelesaikan dengan persetujuan di memutuskan bawah seksyen 27, persoalan itu hendaklah diputuskan apabila oleh Penimbangtara. Besetuju.
(2) Sesuatu persoalan tidak diselesaikan dengan persetujuan melainkan jika pekerja, majıkan dan esuruhjaya semuanya menunjukkan persetujual nereka dengan menandatangani suatu akuan terim persetujuan atau melainkan sesuatu persetujuan di antara pekerja dan majikan direkodkan oleh Pesuruhjaya di bawah seksyen 28.
(3) Sesuatu permohonan bagi penyelesaian mana-mana persoalan yang dialamatkan kepada Penimbangtara hendaklah mengandungi suatu
duti setem. [Bah. III, S. 30-31] erakuan oleh Pesuruhjaya bahawa dıa tela pengadjikan tsiana rdn di licayah seksyen 27 dan bahaw Sergatr elaohoan yana pemidian epltisah bageo pangk ekeriang ph mji ka olch Pesurhaya bawah seksyen 8, 10, 14 atau 15.
(5) Sesuatu permohonan kepada Penimbangtara bagi penyelesaian mana-mana persoalan hendaklah dibuat dalam sesuatu borang dan hendaklah disertakan dengan fee, jika ada, sebagaimana yang boleh ditetapkan dan hendaklah mengandungi, sebagai tambahan kepada apa-apa butir-butir yang boleh ditetapkan dan kepada perakuan di bawah subseksyen (3), suatu pernyataar ringkas tentang hal keadaan di mana permohonan ibuat dan tentang relif atau perintah yang dimint leh pemohon dan tentang persoalan-persoalan van atasnya persetujuan kedua-dua telah dan belum Dengan syarat bahawa bayaran fee hendaklah diketepikan bila Pesuruhjaya membuat permohonan sama ada atas usulnya sendiri atau bagi pihak pekerja.
(6) Pesuruhjaya hendaklah, atas permintaan manamana orang yang memohon penyelesaian sesuatu persoalan dan setelah fee yang ditetapkan dibayar, memberi kepadanya suatu salinan rekodnya bersama dengasa mienğakumya samana surat yang relevandan
(7) Jika dalam perjalanan sesuatu siasatan yang diadakan oleh Pesuruhjaya di bawah seksyen 27 pekerja dan majikan dan Pesuruhjaya semuanya bersetuju atas mana-mana persoalan dan Pesuruhjaya merekodkan persetujuan itu secara bertulis, persoalan itu tidaklah boleh dikemukakan kepada Penimbangtara.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (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).
