Short title, application, and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Malaysian Forestry Research and Development Board Act 1985 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 different dates may be appointed for different parts of Malaysia.
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “approved programmes” means programmes approved by the Board; “Board” means the Malaysian Forestry Research and Development Board established under section 3; “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board appointed under section 3; “Director General” means the Director General appointed under section 12 and includes the Deputy Director General; “forest development” means the management and development policies and activities for all natural and man-made forests, based on sound ecological and economic principles, for the expressed purposes of both the production of forest produce and the protection of the environment; “forest industries” means all industries engaged in the harvesting, extraction, processing, manufacture, preservation and seasoning of forest produce; “forest produce” means— (a) products in the unprocessed or semi-processed form, that is to say— logs; poles; fuelwood; rubberwood; stems of oil palms, coconut and other palms; gaharu and other scented wood; gums, damar and oleoresins; wood oils; leaves; rattans; bamboos; illipe nuts; shoots; roots; mengkuang; (b) products that have undergone processing or whose forms have been altered, that is to say— sawn timber; charcoal; essential oils; wood chips, and wood shavings; ground wood; beadings, and mouldings; plywood and veneer; particleboards, and fibreboards; blockboards, laminboards, and other reconstituted woodbased panel products; wood pulp, paper and paper products; glue-laminated timber; and other processed products derived from items listed in (a); and (c) products in the finished form, that is to say— attaps; railway and tramway sleepers of wood; furniture, handicrafts and toys of wood; wooden handles of tools; piles, pickets, and stakes of wood; picture frames of wood; packing cases of wood; household utensils of wood; basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of plaiting; pencils; and other finished articles that are wholly or partially made from products listed in (a) or (b); “Fund” means the Forestry Research and Development Fund established under section 15; “Institute” means the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia established under section 11; “member” means a member of the Board, and includes an alternate member; “Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for the forestry sector; “remuneration” includes salary or wages, allowances, medical benefits, free or subsidized housing, and other privileges capable of being valued in money.
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).