Section 31

refuses any officer appointed under this Act or the other persons referred to in section 29b access to any premises, or fails to submit to a search of his person;

assaults, obstructs, hinders or delays or otherwise interferes with an officer appointed under this Act or the other persons referred to in section 29b in effecting any entry which he is entitled to effect or in the performance of his duties under this Part;

fails to comply with any lawful demands of any officer appointed under this Act in the performance of his duties under this Part;

refuses to give to any officer appointed under this Act any property, document or computerized data which may reasonably be required of him and which he has in his power to give;

fails to disclose any information or to produce to, or conceals or attempts to conceal from an officer appointed under this Act any property, document or computerized data which such officer requires;

rescues or attempts to rescue any thing which has been duly seized;

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before or after any search or seizure, breaks or otherwise destroys any thing to prevent its seizure, or the securing of any property, document or computerized data;

without lawful authority, breaks, tampers with or damages the seal referred to in section 29 or removes any thing under seal or attempts to do so; or

obstructs in whatever manner any officer appointed under this Act acting in pursuance of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

If any person in giving any such information as is mentioned in subsection (1), makes any statement which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to the penalty mentioned in that subsection.

(Deleted by Act A1379).

Warrant admissible notwithstanding defects, etc.