Section 14
Production of licence and accounting for explosives
Any senior police officer or any Officer in Charge of a Police
District may, for reasons to be first recorded by him, authorize by name in writing any police officer not below the rank of corporal to require any person or the persons living in any locality within his jurisdiction to produce his or their licence or licences and to produce or account for the explosives described therein.
(2)
Any person who fails to account satisfactorily to an officer authorized by or under this section for any explosives described in any licence issued to him during the period for which the licence is in force or after its expiry, suspension, or cancellation, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of five hundred ringgit.
(3)
Any explosive produced to or discovered by a police officer in any State under this section may, if the Chief Police Officer, for reasons of public safety to be duly recorded by him, so directs, be detained by the police for any period not exceeding one month:
Provided that no explosives shall be detained under this section contrary to the orders of the Minister.
(4)
Any power which a senior police officer or an Officer in Charge of a Police District is by this section empowered to authorize to be exercised by a police officer not below the rank of corporal may be exercised in person by a senior police officer or by an Officer in
Charge of a Police District.