Bunga Tanjong Dissolution Null And Void, Says Betty Chew - Bernama

PENANG, May 8 (Bernama) -- The wife of Chief Minister, Betty Chew Gek Cheng, said the dissolution of Pertubuhan Bunga Tanjong (PBT) is null and void as its former management had failed to comply with legal requirements.

She said Bunga Tanjong's constitution had clearly spelt out that an application for dissolution had to be made within 14 days of the decision to dissolve the organisation whose members comprise wives of former and serving Barisan Nasional (BN) state assemblymen in Penang.

Failure to do so meant the dissolution was null and void, she said in a statement Thursday.

Betty said Penang Registrar of Societies (ROS) director Mohd Jamil Mohd Noor had admitted that the application for dissolution was made only on April 4 which was more than 14 days after their decision on March 9 to dissolve Bunga Tanjong.

Therefore, she said, the former President of PBT, Puan Sri Chui Kah Peng, the wife of former Penang Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, should withdraw her application to dissolve the organisation on legal and ethical grounds.

"Should she still refuse to do so, the ROS should reject the application on grounds that both are ultra vires and failing to comply with the requirement to submit the application within 14 days," she said.

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