Malaysia legislation
Section 266
Section 266
(a)
the Director;
(b)
any commissioned officer of any of Her Majesty’s ships on full pay;
(c)
a Superintendent;
(d)
a Port Officer has reason to suspect that any provisions of this Ordinance, or any law for the time being in force relating to merchant seamen or navigation, is not complied with, that officer may –
(i)
require the owner, master or any of the crew of any British or North Borneo ship to produce an official log book or other document relating to the crew or any member thereof in their respective possession or control;
(ii)
require any such master to produce a list of all persons on board his ship, and to take copies of any official log books, or documents, or of any part thereof;
(iii)
muster the crew of any such ship; and
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(iv)
summon the master to appear and give any explanation concerning the ship or her crew or the official log books or documents produced or required to be produced.
(2)
If any person, on being duly required by an officer authorized under this section, fails without reasonable cause to produce to that officer any such official log book or document as he is required to produce under this section, or refuses to allow the same to be inspected or copied, or impedes any muster of the crew required under this section, or refuses or neglects to give any explanation which he is required under this section to give, or knowingly misleads or deceives any officer authorized under this section to demand any such explanation, that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.