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LEGAL DIVISION

Division Head : Puan Siti-Ramah bt Hj. Shariff

As one of the supporting section, The Law Division is to provide guidance service and is an overall executive towards PBT, ammending laws to local authority, processing the new proposal of new rules which will be used by the local authority, to decide the policies used by the local authority and to check all the perundangan paperworks which involved all the local authorities in Sarawak. As for now, only City Council and City Municipal are having Law Staff for about 23 Local Authorities which are under KASKA. Besides that, this section is also responsible to do the administrative duties which involving KASKA.

Legal Jurisdiction

  1. To discuss with the Local Authorities about any issues which involved with the implementations of perundangan.
  2. Preparing suggestion papers for ammendment of old perundangan or an introduction of new rules for PBT.
  3. Preparing drafts and distribute them to the local authorieis and other agencies for feedback purposes.
  4. To process all the actions to improve Draft which will be checked by the State Attorney Main Office and further will be presented for approval by the State Government Meeting Council or by the Tuan Yang Terutama Dipertua Negeri and later been awarded.
  5. Processing the proposals of pembentangan new rules for PBT
  6. To scale awareness programme in the source of talk / courses / workshop / seminar for PBT as a law guide or an introduction to a new law.
  7. Memantau dan menilai implementasi di PBT.
  8. Preparing law advice for PBT and KASKA.
  9. To assist on checking law documents for PBT and contract document for PBT and for the 3rd Party.
  10. To check and refer on court cases which involved the PBTs to the State High Lawyer.