Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires⎯
“analyst” means an analyst appointed under section 51;
“authorized officer” means any officer appointed by the
Board under section 36;
“Board” means the Board constituted and established under section 3;
“cess” means the cess imposed under section 25;
“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board appointed under section 4(1)(a) and includes any person appointed by the
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Minister to temporarily discharge the functions and duties of the
Chairman;
“conveyance” includes ship, boat, vessel, train, vehicle, aircraft or any other means of transport by which persons or goods can be carried;
“export” means to take or cause to be taken out of the State any rubber product by any conveyance;
“Fund” means the Sarawak Rubber Industry Board Fund established under section 20;
“General Manager” means the person appointed under section 11 and includes any officer for the time being acting in or covering the duties of the General Manager;
“Government” means the Government of the State of
Sarawak;
“land” has the same meaning assigned to it in the Land Code
[Cap. 81 (1958 Ed.)];
“member” means a member of the Board and includes a nominee member;
“Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for agriculture;
“Native Customary Land” has the same meaning assigned to it in the Land Code [Cap. 81 (1958 Ed.)];
“processed rubber” means rubber that has undergone processing operations that transform raw rubber into rubber products or finished goods in one way or another into Standard
Malaysian Rubber (SMR) or any other standard approved by the
Board;
“raw rubber” means all natural rubber in its original form, in liquid or solid derived from rubber plant and includes field latex, cup-lumps, rubber sheets, and all field rubber coagulum;
“rubber” means all natural rubber in liquid, solid or blended form derived from any latex-bearing plant and synthetic rubber in liquid, solid or blended form derived from petrochemical products and includes all elastomers derived from natural or synthetic rubber or both;
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“rubber industry” means any activity which includes the planting of rubber plant, the production of rubber and hevea wood, the processing and utilization of rubber, the manufacture of rubber products, and any services related thereto;
“rubber plant” means the species of plants of the genera
Hevea Brasiliensis (para rubber), Manihot Glaziovii (ceara rubber), Castilloa Elastica, Ficus Elastica (rambung) or any other genus or species of latex-bearing plant and includes—
(a)
hybrids or clones of the genus or species;
(b)
plants resulting from the crossing of the species, hybrids or clones with any other species, hybrids, or clones of plants; and
(c)
genetically engineered versions of these species, hybrids, or clones.
“rubber planting material” means rubber seeds, rubber seedlings, bare-rooted stumps (BRS), budded stumps, plants from rubber tissues and including any other planting materials introduced or approved by the Board;
“rubber product” means any product obtained directly from rubber plant, or wholly or partly manufactured or derived from such product and includes latex, raw rubber, processed rubber, rubber planting material, rubber wood and all vulcanizates in finished or semi-finished form derived wholly or partly from rubber; and
“State land” has the same meaning assigned to it in the Land
Code [Cap. 81 (1958 Ed.)].