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Section 70

Identification of officials

of Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967

ActIn forceProvision 91 of 124
Section 70
(1)

Any person exercising the right of access or the right to take possession conferred by section 33 shall carry a warrant in the prescribed form issued by the Director General (or, in the case of a warrant issued to the Director General, by a Deputy Director General)

which shall identify the holder and his office and shall be produced by the holder on demand to any person having reasonable grounds to make the demand.

(2)

Where a person purporting to be a public officer or an employee of the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia exercising functions under this Act produces a warrant in the form prescribed under subsection (1)

or any written identification or authority, then, until the contrary is proved, the warrant, written identification or authority shall be presumed to be genuine and he shall be presumed to be the person referred to therein.