PETALING JAYA: The Chief Justice is amenable to roping in Justices of Peace (JPs) with legal qualifications to sit as Second Class magistrates, said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
“Allowing JPs to sit as Second Class magistrates is not conferring on them any new power but merely implementing what is already in the Subordinate Courts Act 1948,” said Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim in an interview.
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