Standards of Malaysia (Amendment) Act 2012 · As enacted
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Section 17 of the principal Act is amended—
by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1) No body of persons shall, except with the consent of the Minister, exercise the functions for which it is formed under a name that contains the words “Malaysian Standard” or the “Department of
Standards, Malaysia” or any abbreviation or misleading abbreviation or any resemblance of it.”; and
in subsection (4), by inserting after the word “ringgit”
the words “or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both”.