Section 103

assaults, obstructs, impedes or interferes with any forest officer, police officer or public servant in the performance of his functions under this Ordinance;

unlawfully takes away or endeavours to take away any forest produce, machinery, conveyance, document or other things or property seized under this Ordinance; or

after any seizure, causes the disappearance of, or damages or destroys any forest produce, conveyance, document or other things or property in order to prevent the seizure thereto or the securing of the forest produce, conveyance, document or other things or property,

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shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand ringgit and not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment not exceeding seven years or to both.

Notwithstanding sections 173A and 294 of the Criminal

Procedure Code [Act 593], any offence under subsection (1)(a) shall be inquired into and tried according to the provisions herein contained.

Abettors liable to penalties