Short title, application and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia Act 1971. (2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia. (3) 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 States or parts of Malaysia.
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “authorized officer” means an officer authorized under section 11; “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia; “Director General” means the Director General of the Lembaga appointed under subsection 3(3); “fish” includes any of the varieties of marine, brackish water or fresh water fishes, crustacean, aquatic mollusca, marine sponges, trepang and other aquatic life and the products therefrom, but does not include turtles or their egg; “Fishermen’s Association” means any Fishermen’s Association established under the Fishermen’s Associations Act 1971 [Act 44]; “Fund” means the fund established under section 6; “Lembaga” means the Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia established under section 3; “marketing” means sale, purchase, assembling, storage, transport, processing, grading, packaging, advertising and promotion; “member” means any member of the Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia including the Chairman, temporary Chairman and such temporary member as appointed under subsection 3(5); “Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for fisheries; “temporary Chairman” means a temporary Chairman of the Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia appointed under subsection 3(5).
Provisions on this page are reproduced verbatim from official open data. See the attribution line.
Text as at 1 February 2013 (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).