Section 7
Registration and refusal of registration
of Forest Timber Enactment 2015
(1)
Upon receipt of an application made under section 6 and after given due consideration, the Director may -
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(a)
register the applicant and issue a certificate of registration to the applicant in such form as prescribed by the Director; or
(b)
refuse the application.
(2)
The certificate of registration may be issued subject to such conditions as the Director thinks fit to impose.
(3)
Where the Director refuses the registration of application in pursuance of subsection (1), he shall inform the applicant by a written notice that the application has been refused and the reasons for the refusal.
(4)
Every registration under this section shall be valid for a period of one year, or for such longer period but not exceeding five years as the Director may determine, from the date of registration and may be renewable, unless sooner cancelled under section 10, at the discretion of the Director for such further period of not less than one year but not exceeding five years as the Director thinks fit.
(5)
No person who is not an incorporated person shall be registered under this section unless there is in respect of his business a valid certificate of registration of business issued under any written law in force in Malaysia relating to the registration of businesses.
(6)
Any person who carry on any activity relating to timber industry without registration in pursuance to paragraph (1) (a) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.