Malaysia legislation
Section 60
Section 60
(a)
deleting from the Poisons List set out in the First
Schedule thereto all entries relating to those substances;
and
(b)
deleting from the Appendix to the said Poisons List the entries listed in Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act.
(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1) and the other provisions of this
Act—
(a)
a person who, by virtue of a licence issued, under the
Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder, before the coming into operation of this section, would, but for this
Act, be entitled to do any act or thing in relation to a substance listed in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act may, during the period for which the licence is valid, continue to do that act or thing subject to the terms or conditions of the licence and shall, in doing or in relation to the doing of that act or thing, continue to be governed by the Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder;
(b)
if the appropriate licensing authority under the Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder considers, after consulting the Board, that it is necessary to do so in order that the business or activities of a person referred to in
*NOTE—Poisons Ordinance 1952 [F.M. 29 of 1952] has since been superseded and revised–see relevant section of the Poisons Act 1952 [Act 366].
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paragraph (a) may not be unduly jeopardized by any delay in fully implementing this Act, the licensing authority may, upon the expiry of the current licence of the person, from time to time issue to him another such licence under, in accordance with, and subject to the Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder as if they continue to apply to the substance concerned in the licence, and paragraph (a)
shall apply mutatis mutandis to the person;
(c)
a person who would, but for this Act, be entitled to do an act or thing by virtue of subsection 4(3) or section 15 of the
Ordinance shall continue to be so entitled in relation to a substance listed in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act and shall, in doing or in relation to the doing of that act or thing, continue to be governed by the Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder;
(d)
a person who would, but for this Act, be entitled, by virtue of paragraph 9(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Ordinance, to dispense, compound, or mix any of the substances listed in Part I of the
Third Schedule to this Act with any other substance for the purpose of its being used for medical treatment shall continue to be so entitled and, in doing or in relation to the doing of the said acts, shall continue to be governed by the Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder;
(e)
regulations made under the Ordinance relating to the possession, containers, packaging, labelling, or storing of poisons generally or of particular poisons and applicable, immediately before the coming into operation of this section, to the substances listed in Part I of the Third
Schedule to this Act or to any one or more of them shall, notwithstanding and to the exclusion of the rules and regulations made under this Act, continue to be so applicable and to be enforceable under the Ordinance until those first-mentioned regulations are amended expressly in order to remove those substances from the operation thereof, upon the happening of which event the rules and regulations made under this Act relating to those matters
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shall apply or be made to apply, as the case may be, to those substances.
Control in Peninsular Malaysia of substances that are both poisons and pesticides