Malaysia legislation
Section 36
of SARAWAK TIMBER INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1973 ( Ord. No. 3/73 )
Section 36
An authorized officer, police officer or officer of customs may stop any conveyance and examine any timber and timber products found therein or in any place in which such officer may lawfully be, and, if he has reason to believe that money is payable to 32
the Corporation in respect thereof, he may detain such products until such money is paid.
Offence for assaulting or obstructing an officer 37.―(1)
Any person who―
(a)
assaults, obstructs, impedes or interferes with any authorized officer, police officer or public servant in the performance of his functions under this Ordinance;
(b)
unlawfully takes away or endeavors to take away any timber and timber products, tool, equipment, vessel, vehicle, machinery, conveyance, document or other things or property seized under this Ordinance; or
(c)
after any seizure, causes the disappearance of, or damages or destroys any timber and timber products, tool, equipment, vessel, vehicle, machinery, conveyance, document or other things or property in order to prevent the seizure thereto or the securing of the timber and timber products, tool, equipment, vessel, vehicle, machinery, conveyance, document or other things or property, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand ringgit and not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment not exceeding seven years or to both.
(2)
Notwithstanding sections 173A and 294 of the Criminal
Procedure Code [Act 593], any offence under subsection (1)(a) shall be inquired into and tried according to the provisions herein contained.
Abettors liable to penalties