Section 12
Power to require the production of messages
Where it appears to the Minister that such a course is expedient, he may by warrant under his hand, require any person who owns or controls any telecommunications, used for sending or receipt of messages to or from any place out of Malaysia, to produce to him or to any person named in the warrant, the originals and transcripts of any message sent from or addressed to any specified persons or place, sent to or received from any place out of Malaysia by means of such telecommunication and all other papers relating to such message.
(2)
If any person, on being required to produce such original or transcript or paper, refuses or neglects to do so or mutilates or destroys the same, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not less than one year but not exceeding seven years.
(3)
In this section the expression “message” and
“telecommunication” shall have the same meaning as in the law relating to telecommunications for the time being in force.