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Part VII · Investigation and Enforcement

62. Obstruction to exercise of powers by an investigating officer

Any person who—

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(a)

refuses an investigating officer exercising his powers under this Part, access to any premises or part thereof, or fails to submit to the search of his person;

(b)

assaults, obstructs, hinders or delays an investigating officer in effecting an entrance which he is entitled to effect;

(c)

fails to comply with any lawful demand of an investigating officer in the execution of his duty under this

Part;

(d)

refuses to give to an investigating officer any property, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, document or information which may reasonably be required of him and which he has in his power to give;

(e)

fails to produce to, or conceals or attempts to conceal from, an investigating officer, or destroys, alters or removes, any property, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, document or information which the investigating officer may require;

(f)

retrieves or endeavours to retrieve anything which has been seized, detained or removed;

(g)

furnishes to an investigating officer as true, information which he knows, or has reason to believe, to be false; or

(h)

before or after any search or seizure, conceals, hides, alters, disposes of, breaks or otherwise destroys any property, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, document or information to prevent its seizure or the securing of the property, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, document or information,

62 Laws of Malaysia commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both.

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Part VIII

Other Powers of the Bank

Part IX

Miscellaneous

Part X

Repeal, Savings and Transitional

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