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Environmental Quality Act 1974 s 24

Environmental Quality Act 1974 s 24

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s 24 Restrictions on pollution of the soil

(1) No person shall, unless licensed, pollute or cause or permit to be polluted any soil or surface of any land in contravention of the acceptable conditions specified under section 21. (2) Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed to pollute any soil or surface of any land if— (a) he places in or on any soil or in any place where it may gain access to any soil any matter whether liquid, solid or gaseous; or (b) he establishes on any land a refuse damp, garbage tip, soil and rock disposal site, sludge deposit site, wasteinjection well or otherwise used land for the disposal of or a repository for solid or liquid wastes so as to be obnoxious or offensive to human beings or interfere with underground water or be detrimental to any beneficial use of the soil or the surface of the land. (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both and to a further fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit a day for every day that the offence is continued after a notice by the Director General requiring him to cease the act specified therein has been served upon him.

Malay text (authoritative)

(1) Melainkan jika dilesen, tiada seseorang boleh mencemar atau menyebab atau membenar dicemarkan mana-mana tanahtanih atau permukaan mana-mana tanah dengan melanggar syarat-syarat yang boleh dıterima yang ditentukan di bawah seksyen 21. (2) Walau apapun keluasan seksyen-kecil (1), seseorang hendaklah disifatkan sebagai mencemarkan sesuatu tanahtanih atau permukaan sesuatu tanah jika— (a) ia meletakkan apa-apa benda samada cecair, pepejal atau gas di dalam atau di atas mana-mana :tanahtanih atau di sesuatu tempat di mana benda itu boleh masuk ke dalam mana-mana tanahtanih; (b) ia mengadakan di atas mana-mana tanah suatu empat melonggok sampah-sarap, tempat mem uang kotoran, tempat membuang tanahtanih dai batu-batan, tempat meletakkan enap-cemar, • lobang pancitan buangan atau dengan cara lain menggunakan tanah untuk tempat melupuskan tempat melonggok buangan pepejal atau cecair sehingga mencelą atau mengganggu manusia atau mengganggu air di bawah tanah atau menjadi mudarat •. kepada apa-apa kegunaar berfaedah akan tanahtanih atau permukaan tanah itu. '(3) Seseorang, yang melanggar seksyen-kecil (1) adalah AN9:3 — tidak lebih daripada/ sepuluh ribu ringgit atau penjara A satu ratus [Bah. IV, S. 24-25] selama tempoh tidak lebih daripada/ dua tahun atau kedua- 4 limq duanya dan denda tambahan tidak lebih daripada satu :AA 9S3 ribu ringgit sehari bagi tiap-tiap hari kesalahan itu di-

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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

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).

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