Section 232
Power of road transport officer in investigation
of Land Public Transport Act 2010
Every road transport officer making an investigation under this Act shall have the power to require information, whether orally or in writing, from any person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case under investigation.
(2)
Whoever, on being required by a road transport officer to give information under this section, furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, 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.
(3)
When any such information is proved to be untrue or incorrect in whole or in part, it shall be no defence to allege that such information or any part thereof was misinterpreted, or furnished inadvertently or without criminal or fraudulent intent.