In a judicial review filed last Friday, the opposition party sought a court order to quash the RoS decision on April 5, claiming it had misused Section 14(5) of the Societies Act.
PPBM also wanted a court injunction to stop the RoS from taking further action under the act to fully cancel its registration.
In addition, it sought to compel the RoS to provide answers on which provisions it had breached to warrant its one-month suspension.
PPBM secretary-general Shahruddin Md Salleh affirmed the affidavit for the judicial review application.
He also said the decision of RoS director-general Surayati Ibrahim to temporarily deregister the party was made in bad faith.
“The RoS did not hand over a 30-day notice to PPBM’s office bearers as required under law,” he said.
PPBM’s lawyer Rosli Dahlan meanwhile said the party had filed a certificate of urgency to have the case heard as soon as possible.
The RoS previously said the party had failed to submit the relevant documents on branch, division and central leadership meetings.
Last week, the High Court dismissed PPBM’s bid to challenge the RoS order for provisional deregistration.
Justice Kamaludin Md Said denied the Pakatan Harapan (PH) component party leave to initiate the judicial review on grounds that the registrar’s provisional deregistration had become academic.
The court told PPBM that it should challenge the RoS on the Section 14(5) order to dissolve the party for 30 days.
Aside from PPBM, PH comprises DAP, PKR and Amanah. The four parties will be contesting under the PKR logo as the RoS had refused to process their application to register PH as a coalition, citing problems with PPBM and DAP.
Court rejects PPBM’s bid for judicial review of RoS’ deregistration order