Section 10
Section 17 of the principal Act is amended—
of Standards of Malaysia (Amendment) Act 2012
Amendment ActIn forceProvision 10 of 16
Section 10
(a)
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
(b)
in subsection (4), by inserting after the word “ringgit”
the words “or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both”.