Malaysia legislation

Section 15

of WILDLIFE CONSERVATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022

Section 15

Section 37 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

in the shoulder note, by inserting after the words

“Licensed dealer” the words “, etc.,”;

(b)

in subsection (1)—

(i)

by inserting after the words “licensed dealer”

the words “, holder of a special permit to carry out the business of dealing or captive breeder”;

(ii)

in paragraph (d), by deleting the word “and”;

(iii)

in paragraph (e), by substituting for the full stop at the end of the paragraph the words “; and”; and

(iv)

by inserting after paragraph (e) the following paragraph:

“(f) the record of birth, mortality and loss of commercial captive bred wildlife.”; and

(c)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

by inserting after the words “licensed dealer”

the words “, holder of a special permit to carry out the business of dealing or captive breeder”;

(ii)

by substituting for the words “ten thousand ringgit”

the words “fifty thousand ringgit”; and

(iii)

by substituting for the words “six months” the words

“three years”.

Deletion of sections 38 and 39