Section 2

“bank” means any company carrying on the business of bankers in Malaysia incorporated by or under any written law or licensed under any written law and includes the Bank Simpanan Nasional;

“book” includes ledgers, day books, cash books, account books and all other books and documents used in the ordinary course of the

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business of a bank or other person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate;

“ransom” means any money, price or consideration paid or demanded for the release of a person abducted or wrongfully confined or wrongfully restrained;

“wrongful restraint”, “wrongful confinement” and “abduction”

shall have the meanings assigned to them in sections 339, 340 and 362 respectively of the Penal Code [Act 574].