Malaysia legislation

Section 60

of Environment Protection Enactment 2002

Section 60

(1)

The Minister may make rules to give effect to the provisions under this

Enactment.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may provide rules for -

(a)

the establishment and management of any environmental protection area;

(b)

prescribing licensing scheme and fee for any prescribed activity which has or is likely to have an adverse effect on the environment;

(c)

prescribing environmental standards for air, water and soil or permissible noise, and the measurement and control of each standard

not inconsistent with the provisions of any regulation or rules made under any written law;

(d)

prescribing rate and procedure for imposition of any product fee, effluent fee, emission fee, user fee or waste disposal fee;

(e)

any use of land, cultivation of land and the methods used thereof, earthworks, hill cutting or land reclamation;

(f)

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

(g)

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

(h)

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

(i)

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

(j)

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;

(k)

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

(l)

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

(m)

prescribing the procedure for compounding offences;

(n)

prescribing fee to be paid for anything permitted or required to be done under this Enactment;

(o)

regulating and prescribing the practice and procedure of appeal to the

Environment Appeal Board and the fees payable in respect thereof;

(p)

regulating and prescribing the practice and procedure for registration of environmental consultants and the fees payable in respect thereof;

(q)

prescribing the forms to be used for any purpose of this Enactment;

and

(r)

generally prescribing such matters as may be necessary for more effectively carrying out the purposes under this Enactment.

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