Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 · As enacted · Part XI · Investigation, Search and Seizure
Section 85
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
No person shall—
person
"person" includes an individual, any corporation, statutory body, local authority, society, trade union, co-operative society, partnership and any other body, organization, association or group of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate;
refuse any investigating officer exercising his powers under section 83 or 84, access to any premises or part thereof, or fail to submit to the search of his person;
officer
"officer", in relation to an institution, includes any employee and the chief executive of the institution;
assault, obstruct, hinder or delay such investigating officer in effecting any entrance which he is entitled to effect;
fail to comply with any lawful demands of any investigating officer in the execution of his duties under section 83 or 84;
refuse to give to an investigating officer any information which may reasonably be required of him and which he has it in his power to give;
fail to produce to, or conceal or attempt to conceal from, an investigating officer, any property, book, other document, or article in relation to which the investigating officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has been or is being committed under this Act;
property
"property" means any movable or immovable property and includes— (a) any right, interest, title, claim, chose in action, power or privilege, whether present or future, or whether vested or contingent, in relation to any property, or which is otherwise of value; (b) any conveyance executed for conveying assigning, appointing, surrendering, or otherwise transferring or disposing of immovable property whereof the person executing the conveyance is proprietor or possessed or wherein he is entitled to a contingent right, either for the whole interest or for any less interest; (c) any security, including any stock, share, debenture and fund; (d) any negotiable instrument, including any bank note, bearer note, Treasury bill, dividend warrant, bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque and negotiable certificate of deposit; (e) any mortgage or charge, whether legal or equitable, guarantee, lien or pledge, whether actual or constructive, letter of hypothecation or trust receipt, indemnity, undertaking or other means of securing payment or discharge of a debt or liability, whether present or future, or whether vested or contingent; and (f) any other tangible or intangible property;
rescue or endeavour to rescue any thing which has been duly seized;
furnish to an investigating officer as true, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false; or
before or after any seizure, break or otherwise destroy any thing to prevent the seizure thereof, or the securing of the same.
Terms defined in s 2
document
Defined · s 2"document" includes— (a) any letters, figures, marks, symbols, signals, inscriptions, writing, sign, caricature, picture, drawing, or other representation whatsoever in any form; and (b) any visual recording (whether of still or moving images), any sound recording, or any electronic, magnetic, mechanical or other recording whatsoever, and howsoever made, on any substance, material, thing or article;
officer
Defined · s 2"officer", in relation to an institution, includes any employee and the chief executive of the institution;
person
Defined · s 2"person" includes an individual, any corporation, statutory body, local authority, society, trade union, co-operative society, partnership and any other body, organization, association or group of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate;
property
Defined · s 2"property" means any movable or immovable property and includes— (a) any right, interest, title, claim, chose in action, power or privilege, whether present or future, or whether vested or contingent, in relation to any property, or which is otherwise of value; (b) any conveyance executed for conveying assigning, appointing, surrendering, or otherwise transferring or disposing of immovable property whereof the person executing the conveyance is proprietor or possessed or wherein he is entitled to a contingent right, either for the whole interest or for any less interest; (c) any security, including any stock, share, debenture and fund; (d) any negotiable instrument, including any bank note, bearer note, Treasury bill, dividend warrant, bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque and negotiable certificate of deposit; (e) any mortgage or charge, whether legal or equitable, guarantee, lien or pledge, whether actual or constructive, letter of hypothecation or trust receipt, indemnity, undertaking or other means of securing payment or discharge of a debt or liability, whether present or future, or whether vested or contingent; and (f) any other tangible or intangible property;
Part XII
Application of Parts X and XI to Non-Scheduled Institutions Engaged in Provision of Finance
Part XIII
Information and Secrecy
Part XIV
Offences
Part XV