Source: https://loyarburok.com/2011/01/06/k-point-pretender-selangor-ss-khusrin-is-not-appointed-by-the-appropriate-service-commission/
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K-point: Pretender Selangor SS Khusrin Is Not Appointed By The Appropriate Service Commission | LoyarBurok
6 January 2011 | Bolehland | Posted by NH Chan
Quoting Article 52 of the state constitution, he said “appropriate service commission” refers to the Selangor state service commission and not the Federal Public Service Commission.
Bon also said that once the state secretary is appointed by the state service commission it is “not a requirement” to consult the MB or the sultan …
“So the state service commission should do its duty now and appoint a state a state secretary,” he said.
So that the “State Secretary … shall be the principal officer in charge of the administrative affairs of the State”: see Article 52(2)(a) and the “State Financial Officer shall be the principal officer in charge of the financial affairs of the State”: see Article 52(2)(c). By virtue of the offices that they hold it is quite obvious that the State Secretary and the State Financial Officer are chosen from the civil service part of the public service of the State. Since the “State Legal Adviser shall advise on legal matters”: see Article 52(2)(b), the relevant part of the public service of the State in this case is the legal and judicial service.
But what is meant by the term “the appropriate Service Commission” in Article 52(1)? The answer is found in Article 97(1) which says:
So there you have it, there is definitely a State Service Commission that has jurisdiction over all members of the State public service and the appointment of the State Secretary shall be made by this Commission “from amongst members of the relevant public service”: see Article 52(1). Remember this – the operative words in Article 52(1) are “the appointments … shall be made by the appropriate Service Commission”; not by the “Public Services Commission”.
In Selangor, by virtue of Article 97(1), there is a State Service Commission. There is no such thing as a Public Services Commission in Selangor. There is, therefore, no ambiguity in the wording of “Service Commission” in Article 52(1) and this is confirmed in Article 97(1) by the use of the term “State Service Commission”. So that “appropriate Service Commission” cannot possibly mean the Federal “Public Services Commission”.
Therefore, Edmund Bon is clearly right when he says “the appropriate Service Commission” in Article 52(1) refers to the Selangor State Service Commission and not the Federal Public Services Commission.
There is no doubt about it – Mr. Bon is absolutely right. Khusrin is not the State Secretary of Selangor because he has not been appointed by the State Service Commission of Selangor.
“What actually happened was, the names of candidates for the state secretary’s post were submitted to the sultan by the Public Services Department (PSD), carrying out the federal PSC’s powers, in line with the sultan’s position as the chief executive of the state.
“The ruler gave his consent on one of the candidates proposed, after which the candidate was agreed upon by the federal PSC through a letter released by PSD and appointed in accordance with Clause 1 and 2(a) under Article 52 of the state constitution,” Mohamad Munir said, referring to Mohd Khusrin’s appointment.
But we all know better because we are now apprised of Article 52 of the Selangor Constitution (see above). We know that the term “the appropriate Service Commission” refers to the Service Commission of Selangor and not to the Federal Public Services Commission.
How can the palace change the meaning of the words of the Selangor Constitution to mean just what the palace chooses them to mean? You must already know by now that my grouse about our judges is that they act like Humpty Dumpty when they use words in a statute to mean whatever they want them to mean, just like Humpty Dumpty did when he told Alice, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean”.
Article 52(3) says, the State Secretary has “the right to take part in the proceedings of the State Executive Council and the Legislative Assembly” and therefore Article 54 applies because it says “no member shall sit … in the State Executive until he shall have taken and subscribed before His Highness … the following oath …”.
Tags: Federal Constitution, Khusrin, People's Judge NH Chan, Public Services Commission, Selangor Constitution, Selangor Sultan, State Service Commission, pretender, trespasser
9 Responses to K-point: Pretender Selangor SS Khusrin Is Not Appointed By The Appropriate Service Commission
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9 January 2011 - 2:05 am
Kushrin can't be shipped out of the State previously because Mais comes exclusively u/d the Sultan. Nizar in Perak had earlier removed a similar officer in cahrge of religious affairs but had to retract back when Azlan Shah demanded a reinstatement telling the State that it is within the Palace exclusive jurisdiction to deal with them.
I think the PR MB and their Excos are still clueless as to the status of most of the federal PTD officers serving in their States. In states like S'gor and Perak, these federal officers are all infact seconded to the States u/d Art.134. They could be removed by the State if their action is deemed to be prejudicial to the State's interest, by informing the PSC that their secondment is hereby terminated, and asking for a replacement to be sent.
Even in the Kusrin's case, Sidik the KSN is still clueless whether Kusrin has been infact appointed on behalf of the State as SS vide Art.52 State's Consti read together with Art.134 Fed Consti or his so-called appointment is a merely a secondment u/d Art.134. I read the MB's press statement today which says his office was given a Practice Notes from PSD as to the process of appointing a PTD officer to be the SS. The practice notes is in fact the procedure of 'seconding PTD officer to be appointed to be the SS post.
Appointment as per A.144 has different legal implication since the SS is a State's post. Once appointed under that Art. read with art.52 SC, Kusrin ceases to be a member of the PSC and henceforth becomes a member of the State's Service Comm. Art.144 states: " The duty of the Comm is to appoint..transfer and exercise disciplinary control over members of the service to which it has jurisdiction. A similar provision to that of A.144(1) is found in Art.97(9) of the State's Consti. So if Kushrin is legally appointed as per A.52 S.C read with A.144 FC as claimed by the KSN, he now becomes the property of the State Gov't of Selangor. By virtue of Art.97(9) SC, the State can at anytime transfer Kushrin out as SS to assume other State's post. He is now State's property and the State cld do anything they like to him.
With a secondment where Kushrin is strictly seconded to the State to assume the SS post, all that the State could do is to write to the PSD that the secondment is hereby terminated in the interest of the State.
So, the Fed Gov't through the PSD, must publicly declare whether Kushrin's so-called appointment is an outright appointment within the meaning of A.144 or whether he is on secondmentu/d A.134. Kusrin's declaration that he is just following orders when reporting to the Secretariat shows that the posting was a secondment and he is still under the jurisdiction of the PSC to which instruction he is obliged to follow.
KSN Sidik is clueless on service matters because he has never served in the JPA or been DG of JPA. He is an expert in issuing 'APs'. You want an AP, ask Sidik how to go about it. In service matters, ask JPA officers who specailly deals in posting and secondment of PTD officers to the States.
Hatz_off
8 January 2011 - 11:20 pm
Well in the first place, all this could have been avoided if there had been some give and take by the Selangor state government and the Federal Govt and proper communication by them. Two, Khusrin wasn't a person who materialised out of thin air to hold that position, he had been holding other high level positions in Selangor even during the current occupation by the Selangor PKR govt. If they decided that he was incompetent, then they should have just ousted him out in the first place. It is wrong to keep quiet for years and suddenly go he is incompetent to hold that position when he is supposed to take on the position.
7 January 2011 - 10:28 pm
Datuk Chan, will the passing by a simple majority of a resolution in the State Assembly that the appropriate Service Commission shall be the State SC be helpful?
7 January 2011 - 2:56 am
Dr M did one right thing, and that was to put the airy-headed arty-farty bunch in their place and not mess with the admin of the country/state. The current UMNO goons are very stupid to drag them back into the ‘executive’. For goodness sake, they only have a ceremonial role, and have no business dictating who gets appointed into the civil service (except maybe the appointment of the MB, as the man also have to work with him..). Najib’s weakness has led the party to drag in all sorts of people into the running of the states, just to spite PR and idiots are now interpreting the contitution as they see fit. As they judiciary is also partial towards UMNO, it will all be played out like rabbits hopping all over the place in the court and you end up with even more messy verdicts.
I think Khalid better re-think this matter, knowing what’s right is one thing, knowing how things work in Malaysia is another. As long as the federal power lies with the corrupt party, it is wasting time to drag the matter to court. Save the energy for the next GE.
7 January 2011 - 1:54 am
Malaysia is very rich in ignorance.
6 January 2011 - 7:29 pm
The tax payers funded "Fancy Dressed Man" was doing his monkey business for his political masters!…like any undignified human parasite.
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