Short title and commencement
Open ↗(1) This Act may be cited as the Geological Survey Act 1974 and shall apply throughout Malaysia.
(2) This Act shall come into force on such date as the Minister may by notification in the Gazette appoint; and the Minister may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of different provisions of this Act and different dates may be appointed for different States or parts of Malaysia:
Provided that no date shall be appointed under this section in respect of Sabah and Sarawak unless the Governments of those States have been consulted.
Interpretation
Open ↗In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“analysis” means the determination of the composition of a specimen or sample by physical or chemical method;
“authorized person” means a person authorized by a Geological Survey Officer in making a geological survey;
“Collector” means a Land Administrator within the meaning of the National Land Code [Act 56 of 1965] and a Collector of Land Revenue within the meaning of the Land Ordinance of Sabah [Cap. 68] and in relation to Sarawak means the Superintendent appointed under section 3 of the Land Code of Sarawak [Cap. 81];
“Director General” means the Director General of Geological Survey appointed under section 3;
“fossiliferous material” means any mineral substance, including rock material, which contains remains or traces of animals or plants which have been preserved by natural processes in the earth’s crust;
“geological survey” means any systematic investigation of the surface, or content of the earth with or without the aid of any physical or chemical measurement;
“Geological Survey Officer” means any person appointed under section 3;
“identification” means the naming of a sample using simple physical and chemical tests when necessary;
“mineral” means any naturally occurring homogeneous substance with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement;
“ore” means solid naturally occurring mineral aggregate of economic interest from which one or more valuable constituents may profitably be recovered by treatment;
“rock material” means any rock, stone, marble, gravel, sand, earth, laterite, loam, clay, soil, mud, turf, peat, coral, shell or guano within or upon any land;
“sample” means a fraction of naturally occurring matter representative of the mass of which it forms a part;
“specimen” means a fraction of naturally occurring matter not necessarily representative of the mass of which it forms a part.
