Malaysia legislation
Section 2
of RUBBER INDUSTRY SMALLHOLDERS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ACT 1972
Section 2
The Rubber Industry (Replanting) Fund Ordinance 1952 [Ord. No. 8 of 1952] has been repealed by Act A1363– see subsection 19(1) of Act A1363 which comes into operation on 15 March 2016.
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“member” means a member of the Authority and includes an alternate member;
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
“estate” means any land of a total area of not less than 40
hectares included in a Scheme prescribed under Part VI and in relation to which the owner continues to participate in the Scheme for its duration;
“rubber” means all natural rubber in liquid, solid or blended form derived from rubber plant and includes all elastomers derived from natural rubber;
“rubber industry” includes the planting of rubber plant, the production of rubber and hevea wood, the processing and utilization of rubber, the manufacture of rubber products, and services related to it;
“Director General” means the Director General of the Authority appointed under section 11;
“Fund” means the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development
Authority Fund established under section 13;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the Authority;
“authorized officer” means—
(a)
an officer authorized under section 33;
(b)
any police officer not below the rank of Inspector, including an Inspector on probation; or
(c)
an Officer of customs as defined in section 2 of the
Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];
“smallholder” means—
(a)
an owner or a lawful occupier of any land of an area of less than 40 hectares, a lawful representative of the owner or a lawful representative of the lawful occupier;
or
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(b)
a person declared in writing to be a smallholder by the
Minister under section 26;
“owner of land” means a registered proprietor of a land within the meaning of the National Land Code [Act 56/1965] and includes a personal representative of a deceased owner;
“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Authority appointed under section 4;
“rubber products” means any product obtained directly from rubber plant, or wholly or partly manufactured or derived from such product and includes latex, rubber planting material, rubber wood and all vulcanisates in finished or semi-finished form derived wholly or partly from rubber;
“Authority” means the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development
Authority established under section 3;
“cess” means the cess imposed under section 16;
“Scheme” means a scheme prescribed under section 27;
“rubber plant” means the species of plants of the genera Hevea
Brasiliensis (para rubber), Manihot Glaziovii (ceara rubber),
Castilloa Elastica, Ficus Elastica (rambung) or any other genus or species of latex bearing plant and includes—
(a)
hybrids or clones of the genus or species;
(b)
plants resulting from the crossing of the species, hybrids or clones with any other species, hybrids or clones of plants; and
(c)
genetically engineered versions of these species, hybrids or clones.
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