Section 30B
Pollution of land, etc.
of Natural Resources And Environment Ordinance, 1949
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No person shall, unless he is carrying out any activity or function permitted by the Board, pollute or cause or permit to be polluted any soil or surface of any land.
(2)
Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed to pollute any soil or surface of any land if—
(a)
he places in, or drops or spills on any soil or in any place where it permeates any soil, any matter whether liquid, solid or gaseous; or
(b)
he establishes on any land a refuse dump, garbage tip, soil and rock disposal site, sludge deposit site, waste-injection well or otherwise uses land for the disposal of or as storage for solid or liquid wastes which are obnoxious or offensive to human beings or which interfere with subterranean water or are detrimental to any beneficial use of the soil or the surface of the land.
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(3)
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term of not exceeding five years or to both, and to a further fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit a day for every day during which the offence is continued after a notice by the Controller requiring him to cease the act specified therein has been served upon him.
[Ins. Cap. A86.]