Malaysia legislation
Section 14
Section 14
Magistrate, Justice of the Peace or Senior Police Officer may search
(a)
if any person has, within the preceding six months, been convicted of having kept or used as a common betting house the place proposed to be entered;
(b)
if the place proposed to be entered is occupied by a club or society, and he has reason to believe that betting or wagering on horse races, fights, games or sports is frequently carried on there;
(c)
if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as satisfy him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under section 12; or
(d)
if he receives the required information orally under such circumstances that the object of the search would in his opinion be defeated by the delay necessary for reducing the information to writing to enable a search warrant to be issued under of subsection 12(1).
(2)
Whoever in giving such oral information makes a statement which he knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
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Evidence by police officer to be presumptive evidence