Justice Kamaludin Md Said denied the opposition party leave to initiate the judicial review on the grounds that the registrar’s provisional deregistration, made under Section 14(2) of the Societies Act, had become academic.
“PPBM has been disbanded for a month and the order was done under Section 14(5).
“Since the party has been disbanded for now, they should challenge RoS on their Section 14(5) order,” he said, referring to RoS’ letter on the deregistration issued on April 5.
RoS said PPBM was disbanded after it failed to furnish the minutes of its branch, divisional and central leadership meetings within a stipulated deadline.
The court made no order on costs.
Lawyer Rosli Dahlan, representing the Pakatan Harapan (PH) component party, said they will appeal against the decision and make another application for judicial review.
Last week, PPBM applied to the High Court for a court order to nullify the RoS declaration on the interim suspension of PPBM through a media statement.
It also wanted the court to stop the RoS from taking any unlawful action that prevents the existence of PPBM as a valid political party.
PPBM is one of the four component parties in PH. The others are PKR, DAP and Amanah.