Section 54
Control of advertisement
of National Skills Development Act 2006
(1)
If the Director General is of the opinion that any statement made in any advertisement in relation to a skills training provider is false, deceptive, offensive or misleading, the Director General
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may by notice in writing direct such skills training provider to do all or any of the following:
(a)
cease the continued publication or display of such advertisement;
(b)
modify the advertisement in such manner as may be specified by the Director General;
(c)
cease the publication or display of any advertisement which is wholly or substantially a repetition of such advertisement;
(d)
take all practical steps to withdraw the advertisement from every publication or display of it; or
(e)
publish a statement in like manner as the advertisement issued earlier to retract or modify such advertisement.
(2)
The Director General may vary, add to, alter, revoke or otherwise amend any direction issued under subsection (1), by a notice in writing to the skills training provider concerned.
(3)
Any advertisement in relation to the skills training provider shall bear the approval number of the skills training provider and accredited programme.
(4)
Any person or skills training provider who contravenes the directions of the Director General under subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.