KUALA LUMPUR: The documentation course of, technical analysis and approval interval of licences for premises resembling leisure centres, factories and kindergartens have been shortened to a most of 14 working days in comparison with 32 perviously.

Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming in a press release right this moment stated that the initiative decreased the variety of paperwork required to solely 4.

“We have set aside manual documentation and correspondence, whereby reviews and technical evaluations during or after site visits are now done online.

“The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) is now moving towards transforming the management of licensing affairs by the licensing departments of local authorities (PBTs) as well as technical departments or agencies.

“It is to ensure transparency and integrity in the management of licence applications as well as improve the efficiency of Government services,“ he said.

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Meanwhile, he stated KPKT, in collaboration with PBTs, was all the time proactive in facilitating enterprise licence functions for native merchants working in small stalls, roadside stalls, and different premises.

Nga stated KPKT by way of the PBTs additionally applied varied initiatives, together with shortening the approval interval for small enterprise permits and stress-free among the present situations if obligatory.

Other initiatives embody extending enterprise hours and the variety of days for enterprise operations, growing merchandising areas, and imposing the issuance and monitoring of enterprise licenses and permits solely to Malaysian residents.

“In 2024, the KPKT launched the rules for the One Stop Centre (OSC) PBT Licensing system to standardise the method, documentation, utility procedures and licence approval on the PBT degree.

“These pointers ready along with the OSC PBT Licensing system will standardize the PBT’s documentation course of and approval interval for risk-free licences resembling retail retailers, hawkers and workplace enterprise licences to inside not more than 24 hours,“ he stated.

Commenting additional, he stated the rules and the OSC Licensing System had been established based mostly on the Local Government Act 1976 (Act 171) which might be adopted by all PBTs in Peninsular Malaysia first and later prolonged to Sabah and Sarawak.

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