Malaysia legislation

Section 28

of OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022

Section 28

Section 29 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

in subsection (1), by substituting for the word “industries”

the words “places of work”;

Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment)

(b)

in subsection (2), by substituting for the words

“employ a competent person” the words “appoint a person who is competent”;

(c)

in subsection (3), by substituting for the word “employed”

the word “appointed”;

(d)

by substituting for subsection (4) the following subsection:

“(4)  A person shall be appointed as a safety and health officer only for one place of work at any one time, unless permitted otherwise by the

Director General.”; and

(e)

in subsection (5), by substituting for the words

“five thousand” the words “fifty thousand”.

New section 29a