Wood-Based Industries (State Legislatures Competency) Act 1984

Legislatures Competency) Act 1984 and, subject to subsection (2), shall apply throughout Malaysia.

“bamboo factory” means a machine or group of machines capable of curing, processing and converting bamboo, as the case may be, into products of various shapes and designs;

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“blockboard mill”, “battenboard mill” or “laminated board mill”

means a machine or group of machines capable of producing composite boards built up of a core composed of strips of wood of various dimensions glued together between veneers;

“charcoal kiln” means a chamber or retort of metal or brick construction, for carbonizing wood to produce charcoal and includes an earth kiln or pit kiln;

“fibreboard mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of producing a board constituted from wood that has been defibrated or pulped and then consolidated by pressure, heat or otherwise, with or without binders and supplementary materials;

“furniture mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for further processing of timber, rattan or bamboo into furniture or furniture parts;

“kiln-drying plant” means a chamber capable of conditioning timber into the desired level of moisture content through the application of thermal, electrical, solar and chemical processes;

“match factory” means a machine or group of machines capable of converting wood into splints, tipped with a mixture of chemicals that may be easily ignited by heat or friction;

“Minister” means the Minister responsible for forestry;

“mobile sawmill” means a sawmill which is not permanently affixed or fastened on to the ground and which can readily be transported from one place to another;

“parquet flooring mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of producing pieces of wood of various shapes and sizes generally arranged in pattern for use as flooring material;

“particle board mill” or “chipboard mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of producing a board constituted from fragments of wood including chips, shavings and sawdust that have been partly or wholly comminuted and then consolidated by pressure, heat or otherwise with or without binders and supplementary materials;

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“plywood mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of peeling logs into veneer to make an assembled product made up of layers of wood glued or cemented together under pressure with the direction of the grain of adjacent layers at right angles to one another;

“pre-fabricated timber building components plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of manufacturing components, fully-assembled parts of a building or other structures in preparation for their assembly on a site;

“preservation plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the treatment of wood with preservatives which reduce susceptibility of wood to deterioration by fungi, insects, marine borers or fire;

“pulp and paper mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the defibration of wood fibres by mechanical or chemical processes and converting part or all of the fibres so separated into paper, paperboard or other allied products;

“rattan factory” means a machine or group of machines capable of curing, processing and converting rattan, as the case may be, into products of various shapes and designs;

“rayon pulp mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the defibration of wood fibres by mechanical or chemical processes into highly purified cellulose suitable for the manufacture of rayon or other cellulose-derived products;

“sawmill” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the conversion of round timber but does not include portable power-driven saws capable of being operated while held in the hand;

“veneer mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of peeling or slicing timber into veneer;

“waferboard mill” or “flakeboard mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of converting wood into wafer or flake and then consolidating the wafer or flake into sheet material by use of synthetic resin or other organic binders together with the application of heat and pressure;

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“wood-based industries” means industries engaged in the processing, preservation or seasoning of timber or the conversion of timber into various products;

“wood-boxes, crates and pallets factory” means a machine or group of machines capable of making boxes, crates, pallets or large cases for carrying goods;

“wood briquettes plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of compressing together sawdust, shavings, hogged wood and charcoal, with or without binders, for use as fuel;

“woodchip plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of converting timber of any form into chips of more or less uniform dimension;

“wood distillation plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the decomposition of wood by heating out of contact with air, producing primarily charcoal, tarry distillates, pyroligneous acid and inflammable gases;

“wood flour plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of converting timber of any form by mechanical means into fine particles;

“wood hydrolysis plant” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for the conversion of carbohydrates in wood or other cellulosic material into sugars which may then be fermented to give industrial alcohol;

“woodwool board mill” or “wood cement board mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of producing a board constituted from fragments of wood including chips, shavings, and sawdust consolidated with cement binders and supplementary additives;

“wood moulding mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of manufacturing mouldings;

“woodworking mill” means a machine or group of machines capable of being used for further processing of converted timber, rattan and bamboo into finished or semi-finished products other than rough sawn timber.

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State Legislatures authorized to pass laws with respect to the establishment and operation of wood-based industries

State to pass laws with respect to the establishment and operation of wood-based industries set out in the Schedule, and for such incidental and consequential matters in relation thereto as the Legislature may deem necessary; and the Legislature may from time to time amend or repeal any such laws.

Any law passed by a State Legislature pursuant to this Act shall provide—

Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights and powers of

Parliament to pass such laws as it may think fit with respect to the establishment and operation of wood-based industries.

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[Subsection 3(1)]

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2. (i) Veneer mill

3. (i) Kiln-drying plant

4. (i) Furniture mill

5. (i) Blockboard mill/battenboard mill/laminated board mill

6. Pulp and paper mill

7. (i) Woodchip plant

8. (i) Charcoal kiln

9. Match factory

10. (i) Wood distillation plant

11. Bamboo factory

12. Rattan factory

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