Crafting the law on unity


Lim Chee Wee, the deputy chair of the law and policy working committee in the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) and former Bar Council president at the National Unity and Social Development Ministry.

The Harmony laws will protect race, religion and royalty, language and special position, NUCC guarantees.

THEY say bad publicity is good publicity. The Law and Policy Committee of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) must be hoping there is some truth in this. Since they drafted and presented the “Harmony Bills” to replace the Sedition Act 1948, the NUCC working committee has been slapped by a barrage of highly-publicised criticisms.

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