SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CHAPTER 30:10
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MALAWI

    3.    Policy and Statement to rank paramount

    4.    Publication and revision of the Policy and the statement

PART III
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    5.    Establishment of the National Commission for Science and Technology

    6.    Composition of the Commission

    7.    Tenure of office and vacancies

    8.    Allowances and expenses of members

    9.    Policy directions

    10.    Proceedings of the Commission

    11.    Committees of the Commission

    12.    Minutes of meetings

    13.    Disclosure of interest

    14.    Protection of members

    15.    Invited persons

    16.    Oath of secrecy

    17.    Prohibition of publication or disclosure of information by unauthorized persons

PART IV
FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION

    18.    Functions of the Commission

    19.    Powers of the Commission

PART V
SECRETARIAT OF THE COMMISSION

    20.    Secretariat of the Commission

    21.    Director General of the Commission

    22.    Disclosure of interest by employees, etc.

    23.    Functions of the Secretariat

PART VI
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUND

    24.    Establishment of the Fund

    25.    The Fund to vest in the Minister

    26.    Advances to the Fund

    27.    Objects of the Fund

    28.    Application of the Fund

    29.    Books and other records of account, audit and reports of the Fund

    30.    Holdings of the Fund

    31.    Financial year

    32.    Levy

PART VII
GRANTING OF AWARDS

    33.    Institution of awards

    34.    Awards Committee

    35.    Malawi Award for Science and Technological Achievement

PART VIII
LICENCES AND PERMITS

    36.    Licensing authority

    37.    Biotechnology consent

    38.    Other classes of licences

    39.    Exemption

    40.    Application for licence

    41.    Issue of licences

    42.    Suspension and revocation of a licence

    43.    Variation of a licence

PART IX
APPEALS

    44.    Appeals

    45.    Appeals committee

    46.    Powers of the Appeals committee

PART X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

    47.    Secrecy to be observed

    48.    Offences

    49.    Penalty for offences

    50.    Regulations

16 of 2003
G.N. 1/2009

    An Act to provide for the advancement of science and technology; to establish the National Commission for Science and Technology and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Science and Technology Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “appeals committee” means an appeals committee appointed under section 44;

    “Awards Committee” means the Scientific Awards Committee established under section 34;

    “Chairman” means Chairman of the Commission;

    “Commission” means the National Commission for Science and Technology established under section 5;

    “committee” means a committee of the Commission established under section 11 and includes the Scientific Awards Committee;

    “Fund” means the Science and Technology Fund established under section 24;

    “member” means a member of the Commission;

    “organism” means any biological entity, whether microscopic or not, capable of replication;

    “Vice-Chairman” means the person elected as the Vice-Chairman of the Commission under section 6 (3).

PART II
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MALAWI

3.    Policy and Statement to rank paramount

    Every public officer and any authority in Malawi exercising or performing powers, duties or functions in connexion with or concerning the commitment of the Government in advancing science and technology in Malawi as declared in the National Science and Technology Policy (in this Act otherwise referred to as the “Policy”) and in the Statement of National Priorities in Science and Technology (in this Act otherwise referred to as the “Statement”) shall, in the exercise of his powers or the performance of his duties or functions, consider and treat the Policy and the Statement as ranking paramount in the business of the Government and shall further consider it to be his paramount duty to act with all due diligence and dispatch in taking such action as is required or necessary to give effect to the Policy and Statement.

4.    Publication and revision of the Policy and the Statement

    (1) The Policy and the Statement shall be published respectively by the Minister and the Commission for general distribution and, in the case of the Statement, copies of its publication shall be made freely available and without charge in and outside Malawi to bodies connected with science and technology.

    (2) Following any change in the Policy or the Statement, or following any legislative or statutory action or other action having similar effect taken by the Government in pursuance or implementation of the Policy or the Statement, the Minister shall publish in the Gazette the…