12. Obstruction of inspection, search or investigation of an offence

Any person who—

refuses any proper officer authorized to enter or search any premises or conveyance access thereto;

assaults, obstructs, impedes or delays any proper officer in effecting any entrance which he is entitled to effect under this Act, or in the execution of any duty imposed or power conferred by this Act;

fails to comply with any lawful demand or order of any proper officer in the execution of his duty under this Act;

refuses or neglects to give to any proper officer any information which may reasonably be required and which he has it in his power to give;

furnishes to any proper officer as true, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false;

fails to produce or conceals or attempts to conceal any illicit samsu, manufacturing apparatus, book or document in relation to which there is reasonable ground for suspecting the commission of an offence against this Act;

escapes or attempts to escape from lawful custody after having been arrested for an offence against this Act;

rescues or attempts to rescue or causes to be rescued any person who has been duly arrested or anything which has been duly seized; or

before or after any seizure breaks or destroys anything to prevent its seizure, commits an offence against this Act and shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.