Section 9
Penalty for failure of building or earthworks
Where any building or part of a building fails, whether in the course of construction or after completion, or where there is any failure in relation to any earthworks or part of any earthworks, whether in the course of the carrying out of the earthworks or after completion thereof, and the cause of such failure is due to any one or more of the following factors:
(a)
misconstruction or lack of proper supervision during construction;
(b)
misdesign or miscalculation; or
(c)
misuse, of such building or part of such building, or of such earthworks or part of such earthworks, the person responsible for—
(i)
such misconstruction or such lack of proper supervision;
(ii)
such misdesign or miscalculation; or
(iii)
such misuse, shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred thousand ringgit but not exceeding one million ringgit and imprisonment for ten years, or to both.