Section 23

Any person who bathes or washes articles in or otherwise pollutes or causes to be polluted any irrigation tank, channel or water-course shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty ringgit or both:

Provided that the appropriate authority may, by order notified in the Gazette, declare that this section shall not apply in any irrigation area specified in such order.

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Irrigation Areas