Words starting with H

heritage site

Defined in Akta Warisan Kebangsaan 2005, s 2

“means a site designated as a heritage site under section 24”

Hertzian waves

Defined in Telecommunications Act 1950, s 35

“means electromagnetic waves between 10 Kc/s and 3,000,000 Mc/s”

High Court

Defined in Courts of Judicature Act 1964, s 3

“means the High Court in Malaya and the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak or either of them, as the case may require”

Also defined in 9 other Acts

High Level Committee

Defined in Akta Agensi Kawalan Sempadan Malaysia 2017, s 2

“means the High Level Committee established under subsection 5(1)”

high officer

Defined in International Organizations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1992, s 2

“means a person who holds, or is performing the duties of, an office prescribed by regulations to be a high office in an international organization”

high technology company

Defined in Akta Penggalakan Pelaburan 1986, s 2

“means a company engaged in a promoted activity or in the production of a promoted product in areas of new and emerging technologies”

High-Tax Counterparty

Defined in Akta Kewangan (No. 2) 2023, s 157

“means a Constituent Entity that is located in a jurisdiction that is not a Low-Tax Jurisdiction or that is located in a jurisdiction that would not be a Low-Tax Jurisdiction if its Effective Tax Rate were determined without regard to any …”

higher education

Defined in Akta Institusi Pendidikan Tinggi Swasta 1996, s 2

“means instruction or training on or teaching of a course of study leading to the award of a certificate, diploma or degree upon the successful completion thereof”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

higher educational institution

Defined in Akta Majlis Pendidikan Tinggi Negara 1996, s 2

“means an educational institution whether or not established under any written law and including a private educational institution providing higher education leading to the award of a certificate, diploma, degree or the equivalent thereof”

Also defined in 7 other Acts

highway

Defined in Akta Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (Perbadanan) 1980, s 2

“includes all traffic lanes, acceleration lanes, deceleration lanes, shoulders, median strips, climbing lanes, overtaking lanes, tunnels, vehicular box culverts, gantries, lay-bys, ancillary facilities, amenities, bridges, overpasses …”

Highway Authority

Defined in Road Transport Act 1987, s 2

“means the body corporate established under section 3 of the Highway Authority Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1980; Road Transport 15”

hill land

Defined in Land Conservation Act 1960, s 2

“means any land declared to be hill land in accordance with section 3”

Hindu joint family

Defined in Akta Cukai Keuntungan Harta Tanah 1976, s 2

“means what in any system of law prevailing in India is known as a Hindu joint family or a coparcenary”

Also defined in 1 other Act

hire and drive car

Defined in Akta Lembaga Pelesenan Kenderaan Perdagangan 1987, s 2

“means a motor vehicle let on hire for the purpose of being driven by the hirer or his nominee”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

hire and drive car for tourists

Defined in Land Public Transport Act 2010, s 1

“means a motor vehicle let on hire for the purpose of being driven by the hirer or his nominee whether a tourist or not, and used exclusively for the conveyance of a tourist or tourists. Classes of tourism vehicles”

hire car

Defined in Akta Lembaga Pelesenan Kenderaan Perdagangan 1987, s 2

“means a motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not more than six persons or, in areas approved by the Board, twelve persons (in all cases including the driver) used for carrying persons on one journey in consideration of separate …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

hire or reward

Defined in Civil Aviation Act 1969, s 2

“means any payment, consideration, gratuity or benefit, directly or indirectly charged, demanded, received or collected by any person for the use of an aircraft”

Also defined in 1 other Act

hire-purchase agreement

Defined in Hire - Purchase Act 1967, s 2

“includes a letting of goods with an option to purchase and an agreement for the purchase of goods by instalments (whether the agreement describes the instalments as rent or hire or otherwise), but does not include any agreement— (a) …”

hire-purchase price

Defined in Hire - Purchase Act 1967, s 2

“means the total sum payable by the hirer under a hire-purchase agreement in order to complete the purchase of goods to which the agreement relates, exclusive of any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or damages for a breach of the …”

hirer

Defined in Hire - Purchase Act 1967, s 2

“means the person who takes or has taken goods from an owner under a hire-purchase agreement and includes a person to whom the hirer’s rights or liabilities under the agreement have passed by assignment or by operation of law”

historical object

Defined in Akta Warisan Kebangsaan 2005, s 2

“means any artefact or other object to which religious, traditional, artistic or historic interest is attached and includes any— (a) ethnographic material such as a household or agricultural implement, decorative article or personal …”

hoist

Defined in Factories and Machinery Act 1967, s 3

“means a lifting machine other than a lift whether worked by mechanical power or not with a carriage, platform or cage the direction of movement of which is restricted by a guide or guides”

hoisting machine

Defined in Factories and Machinery Act 1967, s 3

“means any equipment for lifting, raising or lowering load such as a lift, escalator, hoist, crane, winch, dragline, piling machine, aerial cableway, funicular railway, access platform, dumbwaiter, vertical conveyor lifter and mechanical …”

hoisting tackle

Defined in Factories and Machinery Act 1967, s 3

“includes a chain or rope sling, ring, link, hook, shackle, swivel, eyebolt, chain, rope, pulley block and chain block”

hold a private key

Defined in Akta Tandatangan Digital 1997, s 2

“means to be able to utilize a private key”

holder

Defined in Akta Perlindungan Varieti Baru Tumbuhan 2004, s 2

“means the holder of a breeder’s right”

Also defined in 1 other Act

holder of an approval

Defined in Akta Makmal Patologi 2007, s 2

“means a person to whom an approval is granted under this Act”

Also defined in 1 other Act

holder of the office

Defined in Akta the Visitor in the Federation of Malaya of the Christian Brothers' Schools (Pemerbadanan) 1954 (Disemak - 2019), s 2

“means Reverend John Kennedy generally known as Brother Barnitus who was appointed by an instrument under the hand and seal of the Superior General of the Society of Christian Brothers to the office of “The Visitor in the Federation of …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

holding

Defined in Local Government Act 1976, s 2

“means any land, with or without buildings thereon, which is held under a separate document of title and in the case of subdivided buildings, the common property and any parcel thereof and, in the case of Penang and Malacca”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

holding company

Defined in Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989, s 2

“has the meaning assigned to it under section 5 of the Companies Act 1965”

Also defined in 3 other Acts