Section 37
No vessel unless exempted, to sail without port clearance
No vessel, whether laden or in ballast or empty, not being a vessel to which the exemption under section 39 applies, shall depart or attempt to depart from any customs port until a port clearance in the form and manner as determined by the Director General has been granted by the proper officer of customs to the master or to the agent of the vessel.
(2)
If any such vessel, departs or attempts to depart from any customs port without such port clearance, the master of the vessel and also the owner and agent of the vessel, if a party or privy there to, shall be guilty of an offence, and the vessel, if still within the territorial waters, may be detained.
(3)
Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding *fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.