Section 2

"Board" means the Rubber Industry Board constituted under section 3;

"Chairman" means Chairman of the Board;

“conveyance” means any aircraft, vehicle, vessel or any other mode of transport whether by land, sea or air;

"Deputy Chairman" means Deputy Chairman of the Board;

“enforcement officer” means any officer appointed by the Board under section 25D;

 In force 1st December 1981 - see G.N. 1008/81

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“export” means to take or cause to be taken out of Sabah any rubber or raw rubber by land, sea, inland waters or air;

"General Manager" means the General Manager appointed under section 20 of the

Enactment and includes any person for the time being so appointed to perform the duties of the General Manager;

"member" means a member of the Board including the Chairman and Deputy

Chairman;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for matters relating to agriculture;

“Panel” means the Licensing and Permit Panel established under section 19A;

“processed rubber” means rubber that has undergone processing operations that transform raw rubber into finished goods or products and includes Standard Malaysian

Rubber (SMR), Technically Specified Rubber (TSR), Latex Concentrate, Specialty

Rubbers, Superior Processing Rubber, Rubber Products, vulcanisates, Purified

Rubber – DPNR, Oil extended Rubber – OENR and peptized rubber;

“raw rubber” means any form of natural rubber in its original form derived from any rubber plant which has not been processed in one way or another into Standard

Malaysian Rubber (SMR) or Technically Specified Rubber or Latex Concentrate or

Specialty Rubber or Superior Processing Rubber or Purified Rubber – DPNR or Oil extended Rubber – OENR or peptized rubber or Rubber Products and includes materials such as field latex, unsmoked rubber sheets, cuplumps, scrap, rubber slabs, latex crepe, brown crepe, unsmoked blanket crepe, air dried sheets, air-dried crepe, pale/white crepe, combo crepe, rubber earth scrap, flat bark crepe and coagulums;

"rubber" includes rubber prepared from the leaves, bark or latex of any rubber plant and the latex of any rubber plant whether fluid or coagulated, in any stage of the treatment to which it is subjected during the process of conversion into rubber, and latex in any state of concentration and also all articles and things manufactured wholly or partly of rubber;

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"rubber plant" includes plants, trees and shrubs of vines of any of the following –