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Section 134

Penalty on refusing to answer questions or on giving false information

of Customs Act 1967

ActIn forceProvision 216 of 294
Section 134
(1)

Whoever, being required by this Act to give any information which may reasonably be required by a proper officer of customs and which it is in his power to give, refuses to give such information or furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding *five years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to both.

(2)

When any such information is proved to be untrue or incorrect in whole or in part it shall be no defence to allege that such information or any part thereof was furnished inadvertently or without criminal or fraudulent intent, or was misinterpreted or not fully interpreted by an interpreter provided by the informant.