Malaysian Palm Oil Board Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part VII · General
65. Offence to assault or obstruct authorized officer
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assaults, obstructs, impedes or interferes with any authorized officer in the performance of his functions under this
Act;
rescues or endeavours to rescue any oil palm product or the proceeds of sale thereof, or any conveyance, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article seized under this Act; or
oil palm product
“oil palm product” means any product obtained directly from the oil palm or wholly or partly manufactured or derived from such product and includes palm oil, palm kernel, palm kernel cake, oil palm shell, palm fatty acids, oil palm planting material, oil palm fruit, oil palm fibre, oil palm empty fruit bunches, oil palm fronds, oil palm trunks, oil palm roots, oil palm based fibreboards, oil palm based pulp and paper and oil palm based chemicals;
before or after any seizure causes the disappearance of, or damages or destroys any oil palm product, conveyance, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article in order to prevent the seizure thereof or the securing of the oil palm product, conveyance, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article, 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.
conveyance
“conveyance” means any vehicle, vessel, ship, aircraft or any other mode of transport whether by air, sea or land;