Perak Speaker reprimands assemblymen for not wearing ties in state assembly

IPOH, May 24 — Perak Speaker Datuk Mohammad Zahir Abdul Khalid today reprimanded a few assemblymen for not complying with the State Legislative Assembly dress code guidelines by not wearing ties.

Mohammad Zahir said the state assembly had decided last year that all assemblymen and government officials present for the sitting must wear a tie.

“I remember when we held the first sitting last year in this assembly, I had set that all assemblymen must wear a tie.

“Therefore, I ask the officers, especially the honourable members who do not wear ties, to comply with the rules of the meeting and the affairs of the assembly,” he said during the state assembly sitting today at the Perak Darul Ridzuan building here.

He told the assemblymen to respect the decision of the state assembly and wear the tie for the remainder of the sitting.

“Other house (Parliament) may decide on a different method, but this house (state assembly) had decided that formal suit must include a tie,” he said without naming the assemblymen who did not wear a tie today.

Among the assemblymen who were seen without a tie was Gunung Semanggol assemblyman Razman Zakaria, who is also the state Opposition leader.

In February, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Johari Abdul announced a relaxation of the dress code for MPs for a year as part of ongoing procedural reforms.

MPs were no longer required to wear ties during sittings in the lower House of Parliament from February 13.