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Amendment Act

Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act 2026

Amends the Environmental Quality Act 1974

The text

Environmental Quality (Amendment)

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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (AMENDMENT) ACT 2026

Bill 2

Date of Royal Assent

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17 April 2026

Date of publication in the

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30 April 2026

Gazette

Publisher’s Copyright C

(Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia).

Environmental Quality (Amendment)

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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (AMENDMENT) ACT 2026

Preamble

An Act to amend the Environmental Quality Act 1974.

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ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows:

s 1Short title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Environmental Quality

(Amendment) Act 2026.

(2)

This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.

s 2Amendment of section 1

The Environmental Quality Act 1974 [Act 127] is amended in section 1 by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

“(3)  The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, suspend the operation of the whole or any of the provisions of this Act in different parts of Malaysia.”.