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Pesticides Act 1974 s 14

Pesticides Act 1974 s 14

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s 14

(1) A person desiring to import a pesticide for educational or research purposes or as registration sample or analytical standard shall apply to the Board in the prescribed manner and accompanied with the prescribed application fee, for a permit to import the pesticide. (2) Upon receipt of an application under subsection (1), the Board may, if it is satisfied that the pesticide desired to be imported is intended solely for educational or research purposes or as a registration sample or an analytical standard, issue to the applicant a permit in the prescribed form subject to such conditions as the Board thinks fit to impose, including conditions as to the disposal of any unused surplus of the pesticide. (3) If an applicant for a permit under this section is dissatisfied with the refusal of the Board to issue to him the permit, he may appeal to the Minister whose decision shall be final and shall not be called into question in any court. (4) A permit issued under this section shall authorize the importation of one consignment only of one or more pesticides within a specified period. (5) The person to whom a permit is issued under this section subject to the conditions thereot, import the pesticide or pesticides named therein notwithstanding that the pesticide or pesticides are not for the time being registered under this Act on his application and notwithstanding the prohibitions in section 13 against the importation of misbranded or unregistered pesticides. (6) A person who imports a pesticide under a permit issued to him under this section but contrary to or in breach of any of the conditions of the permit commits an offence. (7) A person who imports a pesticide under a permit issued to him under this section and who uses or disposes of the pesticide otherwise than for educational or research purposes or as a registration sample or an analytical standard, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for three years or to a fine of fifty thousand ringgit. (8) The Board may delegate its functions under this section to any member thereof. Research or experiment on unregistered pesticides synthesized in Malaysia

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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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