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Part V · Investigation

34. Obstruction to exercise of powers by an investigating officer

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Any person who—

(a)

refuses any investigating officer access to any premises or conveyance, or fails to submit to the search of his person;

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(b)

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

(c)

fails to comply with any lawful demands of any investigating officer in the execution of his duties under this

Part;

(d)

refuses to give to an investigating officer any property, 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 conceal or attempt to conceal from, an investigating officer, any property, document or information, which the investigating officer requires;

(f)

rescues or attempts to rescue any thing which has been duly detained;

(g)

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

(h)

before or after any search or detention, breaks or otherwise destroys any thing to prevent its detention, or the securing of the property, document or information, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding three million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both, and, in the case of a continuing offence, shall in addition be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit for each day or part thereof during which the offence continues to be committed.

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