Malaysia legislation
Section 39
Section 39
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(a)
refuses any senior public officer access to any premises, site, nuclear installation or conveyance which he is entitled to have under this Act;
(b)
assaults, obstructs, impedes or delays any senior public officer in effecting any entry which he is entitled to effect under this Act, or in the execution of any duty imposed or power conferred under this Act;
(c)
fails to comply with any lawful demand or order of any senior public officer in the execution of any duty imposed or power conferred under this Act;
(d)
refuses or neglects to give to any senior public officer any information which may reasonably be required and which he has in his power to give;
(e)
furnishes to any senior public officer as true, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false;
(f)
conceals or attempts to conceal or fails to produce any radioactive material, nuclear material, prescribed substance, irradiating apparatus, radioactive waste, book or document in relation to which there is reasonable ground for suspecting the commission of an offence under this Act;
(g)
escapes or attempts to escape from lawful custody after having been arrested for an offence under this Act;
(h)
rescues or attempts to rescue or causes to be rescued any person who has been duly arrested or anything which has been duly seized under this Act; or
(i)
before or after any seizure under this Act, breaks or destroys anything to prevent such seizure,
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commits an offence under this Act and is, on conviction, liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to both.
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