Section 22
Power to stop, examine and seize conveyances
of Forest Timber Enactment 2015
(1)
If an enforcement officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any timber, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document, computerized data or any other thing in respect of which an offence 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 such conveyance and any timber, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, 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 enforcement officer -
(a)
stop the conveyance and allow the enforcement officer 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 enforcement officer considers necessary.
(3)
Any person who contravenes subsection (2) commits of 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.
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