Section 72
Power to stop, search and seize conveyance
of State Heritage Enactment 2017
(1)
Where an enforcement officer or police officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any object, material, book, document, receptacle or other thing in respect of which an offence under this Enactment or any subsidiary legislation made under this Enactment is being or has been committed, he may stop and search the conveyance and may, if on the examination he has reasonable cause to believe that such conveyance is or has been used for the commission of such offence, seize such conveyance and any object, material, book, document, receptacle or other thing found in the conveyance that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of such offence.
(2)
The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required by the enforcement officer or police officer –
(a)
stop the conveyance and allow the enforcement officer or police officer to examine it; and
(b)
open all parts of the conveyance for examination and take all measures necessary to enable or facilitate the carrying out of such examination as the enforcement officer or police officer considers necessary.
(3)
Any person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.