A file picture of Surayati announcing Pribumi's disband order on April 5, 2018. - Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: Pribumi's challenge of the Registrar of Societies' (RoS) decision to provisionally disband the party will be decided by the High Court on Monday (April 23).
Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia's (Pribumi) counsel Rosli Dahlan said that
the party is seeking a certiorari order that RoS director-general Surayati Ibrahim had misused her powers under Section 14(5) of the Act when she decided that the party had failed to furnish certain information.
It wants a certiorari order to quash the temporary deregistering order against the party dated April 5, as announced by Surayati in the media.
The applicant also seeks a prohibition order to restrain Surayati from misusing the Act.
Rosli told reporters that the party's leave application for a judicial review to challenge the RoS decision had been heard by High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) judge Justice Azizah Nawawi in chambers on Friday (April 20).
He said the party had a fair argument but the RoS has raised preliminary objections.
"The judge set Monday (April 23) at 11am to deliver the verdict," he said.
Pribumi secretary-general Shahruddin Md Salleh, who was the applicant, has named Surayati as the sole respondent in his application filed on April 13.
On April 11, Pribumi failed to obtain leave for a judicial review to challenge the RoS' decision to temporarily dissolve the party.
High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) judge Justice Kamaludin Said had then allowed the preliminary objection raised by Surayati.
He ruled that the application to challenge the notice issued by Surayati to the party to submit the minutes of its annual general meeting, and its financial statement (under Section 14(2) of the Societies Act) had become academic.
The application, said the judge, could be considered alive only if the applicant had not been able to comply with the notice because it was not given enough time or there was an issue in backdating the notice.
Justice Kamaludin had said the applicant could still appeal.
