Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“analyst” means an analyst appointed under section 60;
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“appointed day” means the day on which this Act, or if different dates are appointed for the coming into force of different provisions of this Act, the day on which Part VIII comes into force;
“authorized officer” means—
(a)
an officer of the Board authorized under section 44;
(b)
a police officer not below the rank of Inspector; or
(c)
an officer of customs;
“Board” means the Malaysian Palm Oil Board established under section 3;
“cess” means the cess imposed under section 35;
“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board appointed under section 6;
“conveyance” means any vehicle, vessel, ship, aircraft or any other mode of transport whether by air, sea or land;
“Director General” means the Director General of the Board appointed under section 19;
“Fund” means the Malaysian Palm Oil Board Fund established under section 32;
“member” means a member of the Board and includes an alternate member;
“oil palm” means the species of palm of the genus Elaeis or any oil bearing genus of palm and includes hybrids of these species, hybrids resulting from crossing these species or hybrids with any other species or hybrids of plants, and genetically engineered versions of these species or hybrids;
“oil palm fruit” means the unprocessed fruit of the oil palm, whether in bunches or in loose form;
“oil palm industry” means any industry involved in the planting of oil palm, the production of oil palm products, and services related thereto;
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Malaysian Palm Oil Board
“oil palm planting material” means oil palm seeds, oil palm seedlings and plants from oil palm tissues;
“oil palm product” means any product obtained directly from the oil palm or wholly or partly manufactured or derived from such product and includes palm oil, palm kernel, palm kernel cake, oil palm shell, palm fatty acids, oil palm planting material, oil palm fruit, oil palm fibre, oil palm empty fruit bunches, oil palm fronds, oil palm trunks, oil palm roots, oil palm based fibreboards, oil palm based pulp and paper and oil palm based chemicals;
“palm oil” means oil, whether in crude or processed form,originating or extracted from the pericarp of the oil palm fruit, and includes oil, whether in crude or processed form originating or extracted from the kernel of the oil palm fruit;
“research finding” means any results from research and development activities and includes inventions and improvements in any process, apparatus, machine or technique;
“sea” includes inland waters;
“this Act” includes any subsidiary legislation made under this
Act.