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Part VIII · Examination and Investigation

98. Obstruction to exercise of powers by investigating officer

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(1)

No person shall—

(a)

refuse to give to any investigating officer exercising his powers under this Division—

(i)

access to any premises or any part of such premises; or

(ii)

any information which may reasonably be required of him and which he has it in his power to give;

(b)

assault, obstruct, interfere with or delay any investigating officer in the exercise of his powers under this Division;

(c)

fail to—

(i)

comply with any lawful demand of any investigating officer in exercising his powers under this

Division;

(ii)

submit to the search of his person; or

(iii)

produce to, or conceal or attempt to conceal from, an investigating officer any document, securities held in respect of credit consumers’ transactions, titles, cash, goods, things, property, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, data, programmes, information or article which the investigating officer may require;

(d)

retrieve or endeavour to retrieve anything which has been duly seized;

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(e)

furnish to an investigating officer as true, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, misleading, inaccurate or incomplete; or

(f)

before or after any seizure, break or otherwise destroy any thing to prevent the seizure thereof, or the securing of such thing.

(2)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.

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