Malaysia legislation

Section 5

of FREE ZONES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

Section 5

"Declaration to give full and true account

The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 9 the following section:

Quoted provision

Section 9

(a)

for the first offence, be liable to a fine of not less than ten times the value of the goods or fifty thousand ringgit, whichever is the greater amount, and of not more than twenty times the value of the goods or five hundred thousand ringgit, whichever is the greater amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both; and

(b)

for a second offence or any subsequent offence, be liable to a fine of not less than twenty times the value of the goods or one hundred thousand ringgit, whichever is the greater amount, and of not more than forty times the value of the goods or one million ringgit, whichever is the greater amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to both.

(2)

If the value of the goods under subsection (1) cannot be ascertained, the penalty may amount to a fine of not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.".

New section 10A