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[UPDATED] Fuziah: Op Gasak had 'communication issue'
Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Deputy Minister Fuziah Salleh said the enforcement, however, was not communicated effectively.
"Targeting decanting was the initial move, where subsidised LPG was transferred into non-subsidised containers.
"But somehow, there was a communication issue," she told reporters after the BBC's World Questions debate held in Petaling Jaya tonight where she was among four panellists.
Fuziah said that the government is now collecting data and engaging with multiple stakeholders before bringing feedback to the Cabinet in order to make amendments to the Control of Supplies (Amendment) Regulations 2021.
"This would allow the micro businesses to have more than three canisters of LPG gas cylinders.
"Before this it was three and you would have to have a special permit to have more than that.
"Now that rule no longer applies (to micro businesses)."
Fuziah was responding to criticism that the Op Gasak campaign was poorly communicated and rushed.
She said that this is why the Cabinet, in light of the feedback received, agreed to allow micro and small-scale food and retail businesses to continue using LPG cylinders without a Scheduled Controlled Goods Permit (PBKB) until October.
Op Gasak, which runs from May 1 to Oct 31, aims to curb illegal activities such as gas decanting (transferring gas from subsidised to non-subsidised cylinders), smuggling, and the misuse of subsidised LPG by medium and large-scale industrial sectors.
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