Short title, application and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia Act 1981 and shall apply throughout Malaysia. (2) This Act shall come into operation on such date or dates as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint and he may appoint different dates for different provisions and for different parts of Malaysia.
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “authorized officer” means an officer authorized in writing by the Minister; “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Perbadanan appointed under section 4 and includes the Deputy Chairman and a temporary Chairman while exercising the functions of the Chairman; “chief executive officer” means the chief executive officer of the Perbadanan appointed under section 9; “cinema hall” includes any premises, building, structure and any place whatsoever used to screen films for viewing by the public or any class of the public; “films” includes feature films, short films, short subject films, trailers, documentaries, advertising filmlets and any recording on material of any kind, including video tapes and video discs, of moving images, accompanied or unaccompanied by sound, for viewing by the public or any class of the public; “film activities” includes all activities related to the film industry; “film distribution” includes the renting, hiring and loaning of films for profit or otherwise, the importation and distribution of films produced abroad and the distribution of films produced locally; “film exhibition” means the screening of films for viewing by the public or any class of the public; “film industry” includes the activities of film production, distribution and exhibition carried out in Malaysia; “film production” includes all activities related to the production or processing of films, or the recording or duplicating of video tapes, for viewing by the public or any class of the public; “licence holder” means any person issued with a licence under this Act; “member”, in relation to the Perbadanan, includes the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and a temporary Chairman of the Perbadanan; and, in relation to a committee of the Perbadanan, includes the chairman of the committee; “Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the development of the film industry; “officer of the Perbadanan” includes the chief executive officer; “Perbadanan” means the Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia established under section 3; “prescribed” means prescribed by subsidiary legislation made under this Act; “short subject film” means— (a) any documentary; (b) any animation film; (c) any film of cultural or educational value; or (d) any experimental film, whose duration does not exceed thirty minutes.
Provisions on this page are reproduced verbatim from official open data. See the attribution line.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated. Read the official text ↗
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).