Nazri insists UUCA still valid

The apportion pronounced Mondays appellate justice statute did not describe the Act void. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, November 2 The controversial Universities as well as University Colleges Act (UUCA) still stands notwithstanding the justice statute that one of the sections was in breach of the Federal Constitution, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz pronounced today.

The apportion in the Prime Ministers Department told Parliament currently that the Act is still an Act.

The de facto law apportion pronounced the law, that bars students from domestic activities, remained total as the Court of Appeal decision was only the perspective of the court.

It is right away up to the Attorney-General to decide either to appeal the decision. Until the matter is finalised, we cant say anything, the Padang Rengas MP said.

In the majority 2-1 judgment, the three-man panel of judges ruled upon Monday that Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) breached Article 10 of the countrys highest law when it disciplined 4 students involved in the domestic debate last year underneath Section 15(5)(a) of the UUCA.

Effectively, they can indulge in domestic activities, counsel Ashok Kandiah, who represented the UKM four, told The Malaysian Insider when contacted upon Monday.

However, it is misleading either the judgment allows all students in higher education centres to take part in domestic activities.

Section 15(5)(a) of the UUCA states: No tyro of the University as well as no organisation, body or group of students of the University that is determined by, underneath or in accordance with the Constitution, shall demonstrate or do anything that may reasonably be construed as expressing await for or magnetism with or opposition to any domestic party, either in or outward Malaysia.

The 4 students Muhammad Hilman Idham, Woon King Chai, Muhammad Ismail Aminuddin as well as Azlin Shafina Moha! mad Adza were found campaigning for the domestic celebration during the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election in April 2010.

Nazri combined currently that lawmakers have made the law, so underneath the element of separation of powers, it still stands.

Political parties from both sides of the divide had welcomed the justice decision, saying that tyro governing body must be authorised in the full of health democracy.