s 21 Conduct and discipline of officers and employees
(1) The Agency shall have disciplinary authority over all its officers and employees and shall exercise disciplinary control over such persons.
(2) The Agency may make such regulations to provide for the conduct and discipline of its officers and employees.
(3) The regulations made under this section may include—
(a) provisions for the establishment of appropriate disciplinary committees and the procedures to be complied with;
(b) provisions for the establishment of a disciplinary appeal committee to hear appeals from the decision of a disciplinary committee and the procedures to be complied with; and
(c) provisions for—
(i) the interdiction with reduction in salary or other remuneration; or
(ii) t h e s u s p e n s i o n w i t h o u t s a l a r y o r o t h e r remuneration, of an officer or employee of the Agency during the pendency of the disciplinary proceedings.
(4) The regulations made under this section may create such disciplinary offences and provide for such disciplinary punishments as the Agency may deem appropriate, and the punishments so provided may extend to dismissal or reduction in rank.
(5) The regulations made under this section shall, in prescribing the procedure for disciplinary proceedings, provide for an opportunity for representations to be made by the officer or employee of the Agency against whom the disciplinary proceedings are taken before a decision is arrived at by the disciplinary committee on such disciplinary charge laid against such person.
Malay text (authoritative)
Kelakuan dan tatatertib pegawai dan pekerja
(1) Agensi hendaklah mempunyai kuasa tatatertib ke atas semua pegawai dan pekerjanya dan hendaklah menjalankan kawalan tatatertib ke atas orang sedemikian.
(2) Agensi boleh membuat apa-apa peraturan untuk membuat peruntukan mengenai kelakuan dan tatatertib pegawai dan pekerjanya.
(3) Peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah seksyen ini boleh termasuk—
(a) peruntukan bagi penubuhan jawatankuasa tatatertib yang sewajarnya dan tatacara yang perlu dipatuhi;
(b) peruntukan bagi penubuhan jawatankuasa rayuan tatatertib untuk mendengar rayuan terhadap keputusan jawatankuasa tatatertib dan tatacara yang perlu dipatuhi; dan
(c) peruntukan bagi—
(i) penahanan kerja dengan pengurangan gaji atau saraan lain; atau
(ii) penggantungan kerja tanpa gaji atau saraan lain, seseorang pegawai atau pekerja Agensi sementara menunggu prosiding tatatertib selesai.
(4) Peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah seksyen ini boleh mewujudkan apa-apa kesalahan tatatertib dan mengadakan peruntukan mengenai apa-apa hukuman tatatertib yang difikirkan sesuai oleh Agensi, dan hukuman yang diperuntukkan sedemikian boleh meliputi buang kerja atau penurunan pangkat.
(5) Peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah seksyen ini hendaklah, dalam menetapkan tatacara untuk prosiding tatatertib, memberi peluang kepada pegawai atau pekerja Agensi yang prosiding tatatertib diambil terhadapnya untuk membuat representasi sebelum suatu keputusan dibuat oleh jawatankuasa tatatertib mengenai pertuduhan tatatertib yang dibuat terhadap orang itu.
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).
