Section 26
Returns of arms and ammunition and production of arms and ammunition, etc., to police
The Chief Police Officer in any State may, from time to time, at his discretion by order published in the Gazette, require every person resident in the State who is authorized under any licence, permit or other written authority issued under any written law for the time being in force in the State to carry, possess or have in his custody or under his control any arms or ammunition or any arm or ammunition of any such class or kind as may be specified in the said order, to forward to the Chief Police Officer within such time as may be specified in the said order, a return under his hand, setting forth such particulars as may be specified in the said order of all arms and ammunition, or of all arms and ammunition of such specified class or kind, which are in his possession or in his custody or under his control.
(2)
Any senior police officer or any Officer in Charge of a Police
District may, for reasons to be first recorded by him, authorize by name and in writing any police officer not below the rank of corporal to require any person, or the persons living in any locality within his jurisdiction, to produce his or their licence or licences granted under this Act and to produce or account for the arms and ammunition described therein.
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(3)
Any power which a senior police officer or an Officer in Charge of a Police District is by this section empowered to authorize to be exercised by a police officer not below the rank of corporal may be exercised in person by a senior police officer or by an Officer in Charge of a Police District.
(4)
Any arms or ammunition produced to or discovered by a police officer in any State under this section may, if the Chief Police Officer, for reasons of public safety to be duly recorded by him, so directs, be detained by the police for any period not exceeding one month.
(5)
Any person who—
(a)
fails to forward any return required by any order made under subsection (1) within the specified time;
(b)
forwards any return required by any order made under subsection (1) which contains any false statement or omission; or
(c)
fails to account satisfactorily to an officer authorized by or under subsection (2) for any arms or ammunition described in any licence issued to him during the period for which the licence is in force or after its expiry, suspension or cancellation, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit or to both.