Malaysia legislation

Section 20

of OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT 1972

Section 20

(2)

Any person who fails or refuses to disclose such information or to produce such accounts or articles or documents to the person so authorized shall be guilty of an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or with both.

(3)

An authorization to a police officer under subsection (1) to investigate a bank account shall be deemed to include an authorization to inspect any banker’s book considered relevant by the police officer so authorized, and such police officer may, at all reasonable times, enter the bank specified in such order and inspect such books kept therein and may take copies of any relevant entry in any such book.

(4)

For the purpose of this section—

“bank” includes—

(a)

any bank licensed under the Banking and Financial

Institutions Act 1989 [Act 372];

(b)

any co-operative society registered under any written law relating to co-operative societies;

(c)

the Bank Simpanan Nasional;

(d)

any finance companies registered under the Banking and

Financial Institutions Act 1989; and

“banker’s book” includes ledgers, day books, cash books, account books and all other books and documents used in the ordinary course of the business of the bank.

Official Secrets 23

Admission of statements in evidence

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