Section 94
Requirement to provide translation
of Development Financial Institutions Act 2002
Where an investigating officer finds, seizes, detains, or takes possession of any property, record, report, document, computer, computer output, system, data, books or information which, wholly or partly, is in a language other than the national language or English language, or is in any sign or code, the investigating officer may, orally or in writing, require the person who had the possession, custody or control of the property, record, report, document, computer, computer
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output, system, data, books or information, to furnish to him a translation in the national language or English language within such period as he may specify.
(2)
No person shall knowingly furnish a translation under subsection (1) which is not an accurate, faithful and true translation of the document.
(3)
Any person who fails to comply with the requirement in subsection (1) or contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight years or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five million ringgit or to both.
(4)
Where the person required to furnish a translation under subsection (1) is not the person who is suspected to have committed the offence, the Bank may pay him reasonable fees and reimburse him for such reasonable expenses as he may have incurred in furnishing the translation.
Delivery of property, record, report, document, apparatus, equipment, machinery, computer, computer output, system, data, books, information, article or thing