(1) The Government of Malaysia may, where it considers it necessary so to do, indemnify the installation operator liable and provide the necessary funds for the payment of claims for compensation for nuclear damage which have been established against the operator to the extent that the yield of insurance or other financial security is inadequate to satisfy such claims:
Provided that the indemnity so provided by the Government of Malaysia, together with the yield of insurance or other financial security, shall not in the aggregate exceed the maximum amount established under section 59 for any one nuclear incident.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where it appears that claims for compensation for nuclear damage caused by a nuclear incident may exceed the limit of liability established under section 59, the Board shall furnish a report to the Minister with its recommendations for the appropriation of additional funds for the payment of claims for such compensation and the Minister shall cause the report to be laid forthwith before the Dewan Rakyat.
(3) Upon such report being laid before it, the Dewan Rakyat may by resolution appropriate additional funds for such purpose if it considers it necessary in the interests of the nation that the limit of liability established under section 59 should be exceeded but not otherwise.
Malay text (authoritative)
Tanggung rugi Kerajaan
(1) Kerajaan Malaysia boleh, di mana didapatinya perlu untuk berbuat demikian, menanggung rugi pengendali pepasangan yang bertanggungan dan memperuntukkan wang yang perlu bagi membayar tuntutan pampasan kerana kerosakan nuklear yang telah ditetapkan untuk dibayar oleh pengendali itu setakat mana wang yang diperolehi dari insurans atau lain-lain jaminan kewangan itu tidak mencukupi untuk menjelaskan tuntutan itu:
Dengan syarat bahawa tanggung rugi yang diperuntukkan sedemikian oleh Kerajaan Malaysia, berserta wang yang diperolehi dari insurans atau jaminan kewangan lain, tidaklah boleh pada agregatnya melebihi amaun yang ditetapkan di bawah seksyen 59 bagi sesuatu insiden nuklear.
(2) Walau apa pun peruntukan subseksyen (1), jika didapati bahawa tuntutan bagi pampasan kerana kerosakan nuklear yang disebabkan oleh suatu insiden nuklear mungkin melebihi had liabiliti yang ditetapkan di bawah seksyen 59, Lembaga hendaklah memberi suatu laporan kepada Menteri bersama dengan syornya supaya diperuntukkan wang tambahan bagi membayar tuntutan pampasan itu dan Menteri hendaklah menyebabkan laporan itu dibentangkan dengan serta-merta dalam Dewan Rakyat.
(3) Apabila laporan itu dibentangkan di hadapannya, Dewan Rakyat boleh melalui ketetapan memperuntukkan wang tambahan bagi maksud itu jika didapatinya perlu bagi kepentingan negara bahawa had liabiliti yang ditetapkan di bawah seksyen 59 sepatutnya dilebihi tetapi tidak sebaliknya.
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).
