Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act, 2007

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (AMENDMENT) ACT 2007 ACT A1315 An Act to amend the Environmental Quality Act 1974. ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows: Date of Royal Assent: 29 August 2007 Date of publication in the Gazette: 30 August 2007 In force from: 30 August 2007 1. Short title and commencement. (1) This Act may be cited as the Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act 2007. (2) This Act comes into operation on the date of its publication in the Gazette. 2. Amendment of section 34B. The Environmental Quality Act 1974 [Act 127], which is referred to as "the principal Act" in this Act, is amended in section 34B by substituting for subsection (4) the following subsection: "(4) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit.". 3. Amendment of section 43. Section 43 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1), by inserting after the words "director," the words "chief executive officer,".