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Section 123

Officers not in uniform to produce identification cards

of Road Transport Act 1987

ActIn forceProvision 167 of 176
Section 123
(1)

Every police officer or traffic warden when acting against any person under this Act shall, if not in uniform, and every road transport officer when so acting shall, on demand, declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is acting such document establishing his identity as the Commissioner of Police may direct in the case of a police officer, such identification document as the Dato Bandar, the

Perbadanan Putrajaya, the Mayor of a City Council, the President of a

Municipal Council or the Chairman of a Municipal Council may direct in the case of a traffic warden, and such identification document as the

Director General may direct in the case of a road transport officer, to be carried by a police officer, traffic warden and road transport officer respectively.

(2)

It shall not be an offence for any person to refuse to comply with any request, demand or order made by any police officer not in uniform, any traffic warden not in uniform or any road transport officer if such police officer, traffic warden or road transport officer refuses to declare his office and produce his identification document on demand being made by such person.