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Section 29

Power to stop, search and seize conveyance

of Feed Enactment 2021

State EnactmentIn forceProvision 29 of 57
Section 29
(1)

Where an authorized officer, a police officer or an officer of customs has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any feed, feed additive, receptacle, package, contrivance, book, document, computerized data or other thing in respect of which an offence under this Enactment or any subsidiary legislation made under this Enactment, is being or has been committed, he may stop and examine the conveyance and may, if on examination he has reasonable cause to believe that such conveyance is or has been used for the commission of such offence, seize the conveyance and any feed, feed additive, receptacle, package, contrivance, book, document, computerized data or other thing found in the conveyance that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of such offence.

(2)

The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required to do so by the authorized officer, police officer or officer of customs -

(a)

stop the conveyance and allow the authorized officer, police officer or officer of customs to examine it; and

(b)

open all parts of the conveyance for examination and take all measures necessary to enable or facilitate the carrying out of such examination as the authorized officer, police officer or officer of customs considers necessary.

(3)

Any person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.