Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
“alter or extend” means any alteration or extension in a bearing wall or partition or column, or any other structure supporting a building or any increase in the area, volume or capacity of a building or structure, but does not include a building repair required solely to repair damage due to an accidental cause;
“authorised officer” means any officer authorised by the Director in writing;
“best available techniques” means techniques which –
(a)
have been developed on a scale which allows implementation under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the cost and advantages, irrespective of whether or not the techniques are used or produced in Malaysia, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the owner of the pig farm;
(b)
have been found to be the most appropriate in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment; and
(c)
includes both the technology used and the way in which the application or installation is designed, built, operated and maintained;
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“building” includes any house, hut, shed or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any pig and any pen, cage, wall, gate, pillar, post, paling, frame, hoarding, fence, platform, roadway, path, steps, staging, slip, wharf, dock, piles, jetty, landing stage or bridge, or any structure connected with the foregoing;
“Director” means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry Sabah;
“licence” means a licence issued by the Director under subrule 8 (4);
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for animal husbandry and veterinary services;
“owner” means the registered proprietor thereof or any person in occupation of land by virtue of any licence issued or rights recognised under the Land Ordinance [Sabah Cap. 68], who operates pig farming on such land or any person who operates pig farming by virtue of a legal agreement with the registered proprietor;
“pig” means any pig of any age, sex or type;
“pig farm” means any area of land, any confined place, premise or establishment used for pig farming;
“pig farming” means the breeding, keeping, rearing, maintenance and treatment of pig including the treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of wastes, as a commercial undertaking or for sale and regardless of standing population;
“pollution” means any direct and indirect alteration of the environment or any part thereof by discharging, emitting, or depositing wastes or pollutants thereby causing hazard to the environment or causing a condition which is hazardous or potentially hazardous to public health and safety or welfare, or to animal, birds, fish, aquatic life or plants;
“standing pig population” means the total number of pig kept in a pig farm at any time;
“veterinary authority” means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry or any
Government Officer authorised by him in writing to exercise any power under these Rules;
“waste” means the faeces, urine, bedding materials, rejected carcass or body parts of pig, and includes leftover feed, water used for the washing, bathing or cleansing of pig, water or liquid used for the flushing and cleansing of any pig farm;
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“waste storage facility” means an earthen, steel, concrete or synthetic material containment system, with or without a roof or covering enclosing the surface area of the container, used for the storage or liquid or solid pig waste;
“watercourse” includes any river, stream, canal, drain, well, spring, pond, pool, waterfall, reservoir, lake and any part of the sea abutting the foreshore, and any other water body, including water on wetlands.
Licence requirements