Environmental Quality (Refrigerant Management) Regulations 1999 (No. 451)

These Regulations have been adopted on the basis of section 51 of the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (No. 127). The provisions shall apply to a person handling a refrigerant environmentally hazardous substance in an existing or a new installation. Regulation 4 prohibits the use of refrigerant environmentally hazardous substances as refrigerants in any new installation of a building chiller or refrigeration system. Moreover, no person shall vent any refrigerant environmentally hazardous substance into the atmosphere, except with the prior written approval of the Director General. Regulation 7 concerns the prohibition on moving refrigerant environmentally hazardous substances out of Malaysia. The Schedule attached specifies the substances which shall be covered by these Regulations.