Securities Commission Act 1993 · Updated to 1 Mar 2016 · Part I · Preliminary
2G. Power of Commission to access books kept or maintained otherwise than in writing
Feedback & supportWhere under any of the provisions of the securities laws, power is given to the Commission—
Commission
“Commission” means the Securities Commission Malaysia established under section 3;
to inspect and make copies of or take extracts from any book required under any of the provisions of the securities laws to be kept or maintained; or
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to require any person, or where any person is required under the securities laws, to submit to the Commission any information, document or book, the Commission shall have access to the same and may—
require that the same be submitted within such period, at such intervals, in such manner, in such form, and in writing or by means of any visual recording, whether of still or moving images, or sound recording, or any electronic, magnetic, mechanical or other recording whatsoever, on any substance, material, thing or article, as the Commission may set out in the specification;
obtain clear reproductions in writing; or
copy or move it to a storage or recording device.
For the purposes of this section, the Commission may require any person involved in the compilation of the book, or in the storing or recording of the book in a storage or recording device, to make a statement providing an explanation of how to secure access to the book.
Power of Commission to require production, etc., of books kept or maintained otherwise than in writing
books
“books” has the meaning assigned to it in the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007;