NSC Bill meant to pre-empt resurgent monarchy?
An increasingly vocal monarchy and active judiciary may have been among the reasons for the government to create the National Security Council Bill 2015, lawyer Andrew Khoo says.
The use of emergency powers would normally be the sole prerogative of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, but some of the rulers of the next few states in line for the post do not have a history of good relations with the federal government, Khoo said.
“If you look back in the past, sometimes you can see that when the ruler of a certain state becomes the Agong, there are misgivings about the relationship between the executive and the institution of monarchy,” Khoo told a forum on the NSC Bill in Bandar Utama, Selangor, last night.
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