Malaysia legislation

Section 9

of JEWELLERS (LICENSING) ACT 1917 (REVISED - 2024)

Section 9

Penalty for carrying on business without a licence

(2)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of five hundred ringgit and to imprisonment for six months.

Rules

*10. The Minister may make rules for the following purposes:

(a)

prescribing that registers be kept by jewellers in such form and giving all such particulars as the Minister may think fit;

(b)

prescribing the fees to be paid under subsection 4(1);

(c)

prescribing penalties for the breach of any rules; or

(d)

generally for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act.

*NOTE-See Jewellers (Licensing) Rules, Vol. V of 1953 Revised Edition, p. 264, as amended by No. S 44 of 1956.

Jewellers (Licensing)