8. Power to take suspected offenders into custody

A police officer or an authorized person may, at any time, require any person whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be a person required to be registered under this Act in pursuance of a notice under section 5, to produce his certificate of registration or, if such certificate of registration has been surrendered on the grant of an exit permit, such exit permit, and if such person fails to produce such certificate or permit on demand he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of twenty-five ringgit and the police officer or the authorized person if he has reasonable grounds for believing that such person would abscond or does not know and cannot obtain his name and address, may, without warrant, take such person into custody.

When under the powers conferred by this section a police officer or an authorized person arrests any person without warrant the Officer in Charge of the Police Station to which the person is brought, shall, unless in his belief the release on bail of the person arrested would tend to defeat the registration of such person for national service, release such person on his entering into such recognizance, with or without sureties, as may in the judgment of such officer be required to secure his attendance upon the hearing of the charge.

In this section “authorized person” means a person authorized by the Minister by notification in the Gazette to exercise the powers conferred by this section.