Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act 1991 · Updated to 11 Apr 1991 · Part V · Offences
48. Destruction, concealment, mutilation and alteration of records prohibited
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destroys, conceals, mutilates or alters any record or account required to be kept or maintained under any of the provisions of this Act; or
record
―record‖ includes, in addition to a record in writing— (a) any photograph; (b) any disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced therefrom; and (c) any film, tape or other device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced therefrom, and any reference to a copy of a record includes— (i) in the case of a record falling within paragraph (b) but not paragraph (c) of this definition, a transcript of the sounds or other data embodied therein; *NOTE—This Act has since been repealed by Capital Market and Services Act 2007 which comes into operation on 28 September 2007 except Division 2 of Part VI which comes into operation on 1 April 2010–see subsection 381(2)…
60 Laws of Malaysia ACT 453
sends or attempts to send or conspires with any other person to send out of Malaysia any such record or account, with intent to defraud any person, or to prevent, delay or obstruct the carrying out of an examination, investigation or audit, or the exercise of a power under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both.