Malaysia legislation

Section 20

of Environment Protection Enactment 2002

Section 20

Measures for protection of the environment

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Part, the Director may impose any measure or condition, necessary for the protection of the environment, the prevention or mitigation of any adverse effect on the environment in connection with any activity, which relates but not limited to –

(a)

any use of land, cultivation of land or the methods used thereof;

(b)

earthworks or land reclamation;

(c)

cutting of trees, clearing or destruction of vegetation or setting fire in any land;

(d)

excavation or dredging in water courses or altering the source and course of banks or streams;

(e)

any discharge of any pollutant into water, watercourses, lakes or foreshore, and the storage of such pollutant;

(f)

any activity relating to the production, storing, treating, transporting or disposal of waste;

(g)

any activity relating to any sewage line, waste water treatment plant, incineration plant and waste landfill and on the design, operation and maintenance of such line or plant;

(h)

any livestock activity and the disposal of animal or other organic waste;

(i)

any activity relating to the excavation or altering of any geographical or geological feature.

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