Section 2

"approved programmes" means programmes approved by the Board;

"Board" means the Malaysian Palm Oil Research and Development Board established under section 3;

"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board appointed under section 3;

"Director-General" means the Director-General appointed under section 8 and includes a Deputy Director-General;

"Fund" means Palm Oil Research Fund established under section 10;

"Institute" means the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia to be established under section 7;

"member" means a member of the Board, and includes an alternate member;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for the oil palm industry;

"officer, servant or agent" means an officer, servant or agent of the Board;

"oil palm" means species of the genus Elaeis and includes hybrids of these species and hybrids resulting from crossing these species with any other species of palm;

"oil palm products" means products obtained directly from the oil palm or wholly or partly manufactured from such products; and

"palm oil" means oil, whether in crude or further processed form, extracted from oil palm fruits and seeds.