Section 40
Power to seize
of Sustainable Resources and Wastes Management, 2025
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(1)
Where there is reasonable cause to believe that an offence under this Ordinance has been committed, any goods concerned, together with all machineries, tools, conveyances, documents and other things or properties used in the commission of such offence, may be seized by any authorized person or police officer.
(2)
Every authorized person or police officer seizing any property under this section shall place on such goods, or on the receptacle, if any, in which it is contained, a mark or seal indicating that it has been so seized.
(3)
Any person (other than an authorized person, 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 seized under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be liable 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.