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Trade Descriptions (Amendment) Act 2017 is Malaysia Amendment Act, cited as Amendment Act A1545 2017, currently marked in force and first recorded in 2017.
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TRADE DESCRIPTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017
Date of Royal Assent
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9 October 2017
Date of publication in the
Gazette
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17 October 2017
Publisher’s Copyright C
(Appointed Printer to the Government of Malaysia).
Trade Descriptions (Amendment)
Opening note
This Act may be cited as the Trade Descriptions (Amendment)
Act 2017.
This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
Notwithstanding subsection (2), section 3 is deemed to have come into operation on 1 November 2011.
Amendment of section 2
The Trade Descriptions Act 2011 [Act 730], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 2 by inserting before the definition of “goods” the following definition:
“ “this Act” includes any subsidiary legislation made under this Act;”.
TRADE DESCRIPTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017
Amendment of section 3
Subsection 3(5) of the principal Act is amended in the national language text by substituting for the word “atau” the word “dan”.
Amendment of section 15
Section 15 of the principal Act is amended—
by inserting after the renumbered subsection (1) the following subsections:
“(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any advertisement made in the course of a prescribed trade or business under section 10b of the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011 [Act 723].
In so far as it relates to section 9 of the Goods and Services Tax Act 2014 [Act 762], a registered person shall comply with any guidelines relating to the display, advertisement, publication or quotation of price issued by the Controller upon consultation with the Director General of Customs and Excise.
For the purposes of this section—
“Director General of Customs and Excise”
means the Director General of Customs and
Excise appointed under section 3 of the Customs
Act 1967 [Act 235]; and
“registered person” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Goods and Services Tax
Act 2014.”.
KUALA LUMPUR
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