Malaysian Cocoa Board (Incorporation) Act 1988 · s 23D

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23D.
Power to stop and search conveyances
(1) If an authorized officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any cocoa, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or any other article in respect of which an offence under this Act or any regulations made under this
Act is being or has been committed, he may stop and examine the conveyance and may, if on examination he has reasonable cause to believe that such conveyance is or has been used for the commission of such offence, seize such conveyance and any cocoa, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article found in the conveyance that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of such offence.
(2)
The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required to do so by the authorized officer—
(a) stop the conveyance and allow the authorized officer to examine it; and
(b) open all parts of the conveyance for examination and take all measures necessary to enable or facilitate the carrying out of such examination as the authorized officer considers necessary.
(3)
A person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty

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thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

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s 23DPower to stop and search conveyances

(1)

If an authorized officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any cocoa, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or any other article in respect of which an offence under this Act or any regulations made under this

Act is being or has been committed, he may stop and examine the conveyance and may, if on examination he has reasonable cause to believe that such conveyance is or has been used for the commission of such offence, seize such conveyance and any cocoa, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article found in the conveyance that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of such offence.

(2)

The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required to do so by the authorized officer—

(a)

stop the conveyance and allow the authorized officer to examine it; and

(b)

open all parts of the conveyance for examination and take all measures necessary to enable or facilitate the carrying out of such examination as the authorized officer considers necessary.

(3)

A person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty

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thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.