Malaysia legislation
Section 18
Section 18
Entry and search by Magistrate or senior police officer
(a)
if any person has within the preceding six months been convicted of having kept or used as a common gaming house the place proposed to be entered;
(b)
if the place proposed to be entered is occupied by a club or society and he has reason to believe that habitual gaming is carried on there;
(c)
if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as satisfy him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under the said sections respectively; or
(d)
if he receives the required information orally and either on oath or not on oath under such circumstances that the object of a search would, in his opinion, be defeated by the delay necessary for reducing the information to writing:
Provided that in this last case the name and address of the person giving such information are known to or ascertained by such Magistrate or Justice of the Peace or senior police officer before he acts upon such information.
False information
(2)
Whoever in giving such oral information makes a statement which he knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
Presumption against house and occupier