Departure Levy (Amendment) Act 2022

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Date of Royal Assent

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8 October 2022

Date of publication in the

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18 October 2022

Gazette

Publisher’s Copyright C

(Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia).

Departure Levy (Amendment)

An Act to amend the Departure Levy Act 2019.

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ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows:

This Act may be cited as the Departure Levy (Amendment)

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

The Departure Levy Act 2019 [Act 813] is amended by inserting after section 62 the following sections:

“Power to extend period 62a.  Where, by this Act, a period is specified within which an act or thing is to be done by a person, and the Minister is satisfied that the act or thing could not be completed in that period due to the occurrence of public emergency or

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public health crisis, the Minister may, upon such terms and conditions as the Minister thinks fit, extend the period for the completion of the act or thing before the expiration of the period.

Power to modify terms and conditions 62b.  (1)  Where terms and conditions are imposed pursuant to this Act, the Minister may, on the advice of the

Director General, from time to time modify the terms and conditions for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act.

Before modifying the terms and conditions, notice must be given to the person bound by the terms and conditions stating—

The modified terms and conditions shall not take effect in less than fourteen days from the date the notice is issued under subsection (2).

Where the terms and conditions were initially imposed by the Director General pursuant to this Act, the terms and conditions as modified by the Minister shall be deemed to have been imposed by the Director General.

For the purposes of this section, “modify” means add to, delete or vary.”.