Section 29A

Every authorized officer or police officer seizing any property under subsection (1), shall place on such property, or on the receptacle, if any in which it is contained, a mark or seal indicating that it has been so seized and shall, without undue delay, make a report of such seizure to a Magistrate:

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Provided that in any case where such property has been seized in connection with an offence dealt with under section 31 or committed by some person unknown or who cannot be found, it shall not be necessary to report to a Magistrate the seizure thereof.

Any person (other than an authorized officer, forest officer, police officer, officer of customs or other public servants in the course of discharging their duties under any written law) who tampers with, removes, damages or destroys anything marked under subsection (2)

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not less than five thousand ringgit and not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment not exceeding five years or to both.

If it appears to the Magistrate, upon written information on oath and after such enquiry as the Magistrate, considers necessary, that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any building or place or on any land there is concealed or deposited any timber and timber products in respect of which an offence is being or has been committed, the Magistrate, may issue a warrant authorizing any authorized officer or any police officer named therein, by day or night and with or without assistance, to enter the building, place or land and there search for and seize, and therefrom remove, any timber and timber products in respect of which an offence has or is suspected to have been committed and any tool, equipment, vessel, vehicle, machinery, conveyance, document or other things or property that is reasonably believed to have been used or involved in the commission of the offence.

Any authorized officer or police officer acting under subsection (4) may—