Section 17
Vessel to proceed to Immigration Anchorage or other place ordered by immigration officer
The Director General may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any place within the limits of any port to be an Immigration
Anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class specified in the notification, and the master of any vessel which arrives at a port where an Immigration Anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class to which that vessel belongs, has been declared shall, subject to any directions given under subsection (3), forthwith navigate his vessel to that anchorage and shall remain there until an immigration officer gives him permission to leave.
(2)
No vessel carrying passengers, other than a vessel which plies solely between ports in Malaysia, shall proceed to any place in Malaysia other than a port within which an Immigration Anchorage has been declared under subsection (1).
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(3)
The master of every vessel which arrives in Malaysia shall, if so ordered by an immigration officer, anchor or tie up his vessel at such place as may be ordered, and shall remain there until an immigration officer gives him permission to leave.
(4)
The master of any vessel who, without reasonable cause, contravenes or fails to comply with this section or any order made or direction given thereunder shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.