Consumer Protection (Amendment) 2019

This Act may be cited as the Consumer Protection

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

The Consumer Protection Act 1999 [Act 599], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in subsection 98(1)

by substituting for the words “twenty-five thousand ringgit”

the words “fifty thousand ringgit”.

CONSUMER PROTECTION (AMENDMENT)

ACT 2019

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Subsection 100(1) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “twenty-five thousand ringgit” the words “fifty thousand ringgit”.

Subsection 101(1) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “twenty-five thousand ringgit” the words “fifty thousand ringgit”.

Section 117 of the principal Act is amended—

in subsection (1), by substituting for the words “five thousand ringgit” the words “ten thousand ringgit”; and

in subsection (2), by substituting for the words “be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit” the words