Malaysia legislation
Section 204
Section 204
(a)
for the purpose of obtaining under the provisions of this Act the issuance of any type or description of licence or operator’s licence to himself or to any other person or the variation of any such licence or operator’s licence, or for the purpose of preventing the issuance or variation of any such licence or operator’s licence or of procuring the imposition of any condition or limitation in relation to any such licence or operator’s licence, makes any statement or declaration which to his knowledge is false or incorrect, either in whole or in part, or in any material respect misleading;
(b)
furnishes any particulars in relation to an application for the issuance of a licence or operator’s licence under this Act which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading;
(c)
furnishes any information to the Director General of Land
Public Transport in response to a request made by the
Director General of Land Public Transport under or for the purposes of this Act which to his knowledge is false or incorrect, either in whole or in part, or in any material respect misleading; or
(d)
makes any entry in a record, register or other document required to be issued, kept, maintained or furnished under this Act which is false or in any material respect misleading, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit but not more than ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
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(2)
In any prosecution under this section, when it has been proved that any application, statement, declaration, particulars, information, entry, record, register or other document is false or incorrect in whole or in part or misleading in any material particular, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, that such application, statement, declaration, particulars, information, entry, record, register or other document was false or incorrect or misleading in any material particular, as the case may be, to the knowledge of the person signing, delivering or supplying the same.
(3)
If any person—
(a)
forges, alters, tampers with, defaces, mutilates, uses or lends to or allows to be used by any other person any sign, identification mark, plate or document which is required by this Act to be carried or exhibited on any relevant vehicle, railway train, licence, operator’s licence or land public transport facility or terminal;
(b)
makes or has in his possession any sign, identification mark, plate or document so closely resembling any such sign, identification mark, plate or document as stated in paragraph (a) as to be calculated to deceive;
(c)
alters any entry made in a register, licence, operator’s licence or other document issued or kept under this Act;
(d)
exhibits on any relevant vehicle or railway train, any licence, operator’s licence, sign, identification mark, plate or document which has been altered, tampered with, defaced, mutilated or added to, or any imitation of a licence, operator’s licence, sign, identification mark, plate or document which is required under this Act to be carried or exhibited on a relevant vehicle or railway train;
(e)
exhibits on any relevant vehicle or railway train, any licence, operator’s licence, sign, identification mark, plate or document which does not belong to such relevant vehicle or railway train;
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(f)
prepares or maintains or authorizes the preparation or maintenance of false records that are required to be maintained under this Act; or
(g)
falsifies or authorizes the falsification of records that are required to be furnished under this Act, commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit but not more than ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both:
Provided that in the case of paragraph (d), he does not commit an offence if he proves that he had acted in good faith and had no reasonable grounds for supposing that such licence, operator’s licence, sign, identification mark, plate or document had been altered, tampered with, defaced, mutilated or added to, or that such licence, operator’s licence, sign, identification mark, plate or document was an imitation.
(4)
Paragraphs (3)(a) and (b) shall, with all necessary modifications, apply in relation to a document evidencing the appointment of a land public transport officer as they apply in relation to a licence or operator’s licence.
(5)
For the purposes of this section, “document” includes a badge.
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