Muhyiddin to meet deregistered Johor Chinese School association
PUTRAJAYA: Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will be meeting the representatives of the Johor Chinese School Managers and Teachers Association that was deregistered last month.
Speaking at a press conference today, Muhyiddin said that the deregistration of the Johor chapter of the association — a member of Dong Zong and also part of the United Chinese School Committees’ Association of Malaysia — was due to internal problems related to its legality and members’ charter.
“We will meet tomorrow. This is an administrative problem. One of the associations under Dong Zong was deregistered because they did not conform to the regulations.
“I’ve also asked the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to meet with the association’s representative, together with me. We will correct whatever mistakes that has been made,” he said.
The revocation order was issued by the Johor RoS and addressed to the state association’s secretary, Lim Cheng Hock.
Copies of the order were also sent to the association’s chairman Tan Tai Kim, who is also Dong Zong chairman, treasurer Yu Chin Yan and also the director of the Johor Baru Insolvency Department.
The order was dated Aug 8 and was signed by Yap Chu Sean of the ROS.
The directive stipulated that the ROS had on January 15, issued a statement that it will act to deregister the Johor Chinese School Managers and Teachers Association unless they received a satisfactory explanation on their internal problems.
The ROS also said that the deregistration order was issued on Aug 8 as it did not receive a satisfactory explanation after 30 days from Jan 15.
The ROS made it clear that Johor Chinese School Managers and Teachers Association had been in breach of Section 41 of the Societies Act 1966, concerning being an unlawful society upon the deregistration.
It also stated Section 42 of the Societies Act 1966 that touched on penalties on office-bearers of an unlawful society.
