Malaysia legislation
Section 18
Section 18
(1)
Any person who –
(a)
drives, draws or pushes, or causes to be driven, drawn or pushed, on the banks or sides of, or uses or causes to be used any boat, vessel, raft, float, timber or other material on any drainage or irrigation works without the written permission, which may be general or specific, of the Executive
Officer; or
(b)
uses, sets or places any fish trap in any canal, watercourse, drain, ditch or pond within a drainage or irrigation area, shall be liable to imprisonment for one month and to a fine of one hundred ringgit.
(2)
In respect of any drainage or irrigation works the Executive Officer may declare any part of such works to be a closed area and shall give public notice of such closure in such manner as the Chairman of the Committee for such drainage or irrigation area shall approve, and during the period of such closure any person who –
(a)
encroaches on or fishes or attempts to take fish out of a drainage or irrigation tank, canal, channel or watercourse; or
(b)
bathes or washes articles in any tank, canal, channel or watercourse without the written permission of the Executive Officer,
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shall be liable to imprisonment for one month and to a fine of one hundred ringgit.
(3)
In any case where damage is done to drainage or irrigation works or expense is caused by any act or acts which are offences under subsection (1) or (2), the cost of repairing such damage or such expense, as the case may be, may be recovered from the offender by the Executive Officer in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
Straying cattle or pigs.