Malaysia legislation
Section 51
Section 51
―(1) No employer shall hire, engage or appoint any workman under a contract of service or of apprenticeship or under any other arrangement whatsoever, to carry out, undertake or perform any forestry activity unless that workman has successfully completed a course of training in such forestry activity which is conducted by an institution approved by the Director in consultation with the Minister.
(2)
For the purpose of this section, “forestry activity” means any activity relating to the logging or transportation of timber or other forest produce, or associated with the sustainable management of any forest or the establishment and management of any planted forest and which is prescribed as a forestry activity by the Director with the written approval of the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, for reason that the carrying out, undertaking or performance of any such forestry activity may endanger the health and safety of the workmen or any other persons.