Malaysia legislation
Section 136
Section 136
Penalty for assaulting or obstructing officers of customs and rescuing goods
(a)
assaults, obstructs, hinders, threatens or molests any officer of customs or other public servant or any person acting in
*NOTE—Added by section 108 of the Customs (Amendment) Act 2019 [Act A1593] w.e.f. 1 January 2020.
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his aid or assistance or duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, in the execution of his duty or in the due seizing of any goods liable to seizure under this Act;
(b)
rescues or endeavours to rescue, or causes to be rescued, any goods which have been duly seized or any person who has been detained; or
(c)
before or after any seizure staves, breaks or otherwise destroys any package or goods to prevent the seizure thereof or the securing of the same, shall for any such offence be liable—
(i)
on the first conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding *five years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit or to both; and
(ii)
on the second or subsequent conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding **seven years or to a fine not exceeding one million ringgit or to both.
Penalty for offering or receiving bribes