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Environmental Quality Act 1974 s 34B

Environmental Quality Act 1974 s 34B

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy — section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 34B Prohibition against placing, deposit, etc., of scheduled wastes

(1) No person shall— (a) place, deposit or dispose of, or cause or permit to place, deposit or dispose of, except at prescribed premises only, any scheduled wastes on land or into Malaysian waters; (b) receive or send, or cause or permit to be received or sent any scheduled wastes in or out of Malaysia; or (c) transit or cause or permit the transit of scheduled wastes, without any prior written approval of the Director General. (2) The Director General may grant the written approval either subject to conditions or unconditionally. (3) For the purpose of this Act, any act of receiving or sending, or transit of any scheduled wastes with an approval obtained through falsification, misrepresentation or fraud or which does not conform in a material way with the relevant documents in such form as may be prescribed, shall be an offence. (4) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both.

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Find Act 127 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

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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