Malaysia legislation
Section 34
Section 34
—(l) If any person takes any vessel in any river to which this
Ordinance applies without having first registered the vessel and without having obtained a permit in accordance with section 15, he shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for two years and a fine of five thousand ringgit.
(2)
If passengers or cargo are carried upon any vessel in excess of the numbers or quantity stated in the permit of such vessel the owner and the master thereof shall each be guilty of an offence:
Penalty, imprisonment for two years and a fine of five thousand ringgit.
(3)
Any person committing a breach of any provisions of this
Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder or upon a contravention of any of the conditions of a permit issued under this
Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and, where no special penalty is prescribed, be liable in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of two thousand ringgit, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine of five thousand ringgit and to imprisonment for two years.
(4)
Upon conviction of the holder of a permit issued under this
Ordinance in respect of an offence under section 33(1)(b), the Court may on its own motion order the forfeiture of any vessel, goods or any other property or thing which it has reason to believe was used or is being used in the commission of that offence.
(5)
When the trial of an offence under section 33(1)(b) is concluded, any vessel, goods, property or thing that has been forfeited under subsection (4) shall be disposed of as the Court may order.
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