Malaysia legislation

Section 7

of *NATIONAL PARKS ACT 1980

Section 7

(a)

the State Secretary of each State within which the National

Park is situated;

(aa) the Director of Lands and Mines of each of the states in which there is a National Park or part thereof;

(b)

a representative each of such departments of the Federal

Government and, after consultation with the State Authority, of the State Governments as the Minister may consider necessary to be represented; and

(c)

such other persons not exceeding three in number as the

Minister may, after consultation with the State Authority, appoint and subsection 5(2) shall mutatis mutandis apply in the case of an appointment under this paragraph.

(2)

The State Secretary shall be the chairman of the committee, but where a National Park is situated within two States or more, the State

Secretaries of the States concerned shall act as chairmen in rotation and, subject to regulations made under section 11, the committee shall determine its procedure at its meetings.

(3)

A committee constituted under this section shall be responsible for the conservation, utilization, care, control, management and development of the National Park for which it is constituted and, in discharging its responsibility under this Act, the committee shall act on such directives as the National Parks Advisory Council may issue from time to time.

Director General and other persons to be responsible for the proper carrying out of provisions of Act