Malaysia legislation
Section 7
Section 7
(2)
The said regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters:
(i)
the rates at which, and the other conditions and restrictions subject to which, messages shall be transmitted, and apparatus, equipment and plant may be hired;
(ii)
the precautions to be taken for preventing the improper interception or disclosure of messages;
(iii)
the period for which and the conditions subject to which messages and other documents belonging to or being in the custody of telecommunication officers shall be preserved;
) the fees to be charged for searching for messages or other documents in the custody of any telecommunication officer;
(viii)
(x) prescribing all matters which under this Part may be prescribed.
(b)
The regulations may prescribe fines for any offence against the provisions thereof which shall not exceed the following limits:
(i)
where the offender is a person licensed under this Act and is punishable for the breach, five hundred dollars, and in the case of a continuing breach, a further fine of one hundred dollars for every day or part of a day after the first day during which the breach continues;
(ii)
where the offender is a servant of a person licensed as aforesaid or any other person, one-fourth of the amount specified in sub-paragraph (i).
(3)
Regulations made under this section shall be laid before the Dewan Ra'ayat at its first meeting after their publication in the Gazette.
(4)
If a resolution of the Dewan Ra'ayat is passed, at the meeting next after the meeting at which the regulations are laid in accordance with sub-section (3), to the effect that any such regulation shall be cancelled as from a specified date, the regulation shall be void as from that date, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done under the regulation prior to the said date.