Malaysia legislation
Section 31
Section 31
(a)
enter any premises and there search for, seize and take possession of, any book, document, record, account or data, or other article;
(b)
inspect, make copies of, or take extracts from, any book, document, record, account or data;
(c)
search any person who is in or on such premises, and for the purpose of such search detain such person and remove him to such place as may be necessary to facilitate such search, and seize and detain any article found on such person;
(d)
break open, examine, and search any article, container or receptacle; or
(e)
stop, search, and seize any conveyance.
(2)
Whenever it is necessary so to do, an officer of the
Commission exercising any power under subsection (1) may—
(a)
break open any outer or inner door or window of any premises and enter thereinto, or otherwise forcibly enter the premises and every part thereof;
(b)
remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure or removal as he is empowered to effect; or
(c)
detain any person found in or on any premises, or in any conveyance, searched under subsection (1), until such premises or conveyance has been searched.
(3)
Whenever it appears to an officer of the Commission that there is reasonable cause to suspect that there is concealed or deposited in any place any evidence of the commission of any offence under this Act and such officer has reasonable grounds for believing that, by reason of delay in obtaining a written order of the Public Prosecutor or an officer of the Commission of the rank of Chief Senior Assistant Commissioner or above under subsection (1), the object of the search is likely to be frustrated, he may exercise in and in respect of such place, all the powers mentioned in subsections (1) and (2) as if he were directed to do so by an order issued under subsection (1).
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Act 694
(4)
No person shall be searched under this section except by a person who is of the same gender as the person to be searched.
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