Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 s 53
s 53 Offences committed by trade union
(1) Where a trade union by any act or omission contravenes any provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder, every officer, employee and person purporting to act on the instruction of any officer of the trade union shall be deemed to have contravened the provision and may be charged jointly in the same proceedings with the trade union or severally, and every such officer, employee or person shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence.
(2) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under the provision of subsection (1) whether or not the trade union has been proceeded against or has been convicted under that provision.
Malay text (authoritative)
Kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh kesatuan sekerja
(1) Jika sesuatu kesatuan sekerja melalui apa-apa perbuatan atau peninggalan melanggar mana-mana peruntukan Akta ini atau mana-mana peraturan yang dibuat di bawahnya, tiap-tiap pegawai, pekerja dan orang yang berupa sebagai bertindak atas arahan mana-mana pegawai kesatuan sekerja itu hendaklah disifatkan telah melanggar peruntukan itu dan boleh dipertuduh bersesama dalam
prosiding yang sama dengan kesatuan sekerja itu atau berasingan, dan tiap-tiap pegawai, pekerja atau orang itu hendaklah disifatkan telah melakukan kesalahan itu.
(2) Prosiding boleh dimulakan terhadap seseorang dan dia boleh disabitkan di bawah peruntukan subseksyen (1) sama ada atau tidak prosiding telah dimulakan terhadap kesatuan sekerja itu atau kesatuan sekerja itu telah disabitkan di bawah peruntukan itu.
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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).
