Section 57
of Sarawak Heritage Ordinance, 2019
Section 57
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Any person who fails to give reasonable facilities to an officer of the Government, or any person or officer authorized, by the
Director, to inspect, copy, study and make drawings, photographs, squeezes or other reproductions of an antiquity or historical object, or 40
to enter and carry out any necessary work for the maintenance and conservation thereof, where the duty to give such facilities is imposed under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.
(2)
When any notice under this Ordinance or any rules made hereunder requires any act to be done or work to be executed by any person and the person fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, where no fine is specially provided, be punished with a fine not exceeding six thousand ringgit and to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for each day that the offence continues.
(3)
Where an offence under this Ordinance or any rules made hereunder has been committed by a body corporate, any person who at the time of the commission of such offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or was purporting to act in such capacity shall, as well as such body corporate, be deemed to be guilty of that offence.
(4)
Where an offence committed resulted in damage to or the demolition or destruction of a heritage item, the court may order the person to pay, in addition to any penalty that may be imposed under section 58, the costs of the repair, restoration or reconstruction of the heritage item.