KOTA BARU: The government has yet to decide whether to introduce a new "lemon law" or amend existing legislation related to defective vehicles.
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said the move aims to provide a more comprehensive protection framework for the people.
The ministry aims to strengthen the elements in the Lemon Law framework and is still studying whether we should make appropriate amendments to existing acts or introduce a new act.
"This is to ensure that people are well-protected, with the right to recover their losses from suppliers or distributors who fail to provide goods of guaranteed quality," he said.
Armizan said this in his speech at the launch of the ministry's Eastern-zone tour carnival programme in Tunjong last night.
"This is one of our efforts to protect the rights of our consumers," he emphasized.
Lemon law is a statute that grants the purchaser of a car specific remedies if the car has a defect that impairs or significantly affects its use, value or safety and which cannot be repaired within a specified period.
There are four existing legislations with lemon law features namely Consumer Protection Act (Act 599), Contract Act 1950, Sale of Goods Act 1950 and Hire-Purchase Act 1967.
On the carnival, Armizan said the ministry decided to choose Kelantan as the second state to organise the tour in conjunction with Visit Kelantan Year 2024.
"I was informed that the number of visitors to this carnival as of noon yesterday reached to.20,000. This was good," he said.