Malaysian Palm Oil Board Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part VI · Enforcement
49. Power to stop and search conveyances
Feedback & supportIf an authorized officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any oil palm product, 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 oil palm product, 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.
The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required to do so by the authorized officer—
conveyance
“conveyance” means any vehicle, vessel, ship, aircraft or any other mode of transport whether by air, sea or land;
stop the conveyance and allow the authorized officer to examine it; and
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.
A person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.