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KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Rakyat today passed two bills in preparation for the reassignment of autonomous power in the supply of electricity to the Sabah state government.

The two bills are the Renewable Energy (Amendment) Bill 2022 and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022. 

Both were tabled for the second reading by the Energy and Natural Resources Minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan before being passed by a majority voice vote.

Takiyuddin said the amendments to the Renewable Energy Act 2011 (Act 725) and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Act 2011 (Act 726) were in line with the government's commitment to review the implementation of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement related to the autonomous rights and powers allocated under the Federal Constitution to the states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Amendments to the two acts included a new subsection that gives the Minister the power to suspend wholly or any provision of the two acts in different parts of Malaysia.