Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 · Updated to 1 Oct 2014 · Part VIII · Powers Relating to Enforcement
101. Power to stop, search and seize conveyance
Feedback & supportIf an enforcement officer has reasonable cause to suspect that any conveyance is carrying any wildlife, part or derivative of any wildlife, snare, trap, bait, poisoned bait, arms, book, record, document or thing in respect of which an offence under this Act or any of its subsidiary legislation is being or has been committed, he may stop and search the conveyance and may, if on 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
enforcement officer
―enforcement officer‖ means– (a) any officer; (b) any police officer not below the rank of Inspector as provided for in the Police Act 1967; (c) any proper officer of customs as defined in section 2 of the Customs Act 1967; and (d) any public officer authorized under section 90;
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wildlife
―wildlife‖ means any species of wild animal or wild bird,whether totally protected or protected, vertebrate or invertebrate,live or dead, mature or immature and whether or not may be tamed or bred in captivity;
any wildlife, part or derivative of any wildlife, snare, trap, bait, poisoned bait, arms, book, record, document or thing found in the conveyance that is reasonably believed to furnish evidence of the commission of such offence.
part or derivative
―part or derivative‖ means any substantially complete or part or derivative of wildlife, in natural form, stuffed, chilled, preserved, dried, processed or otherwise treated or prepared which may or may not be contained in preparations, and includes — (a) meat, bones, hide, skin, leather, tusk, horn, antler, gland, feathers, hair, teeth, claws, shell, scales, nest and eggs; (b) tissue, blood, fat, oil, milk, venom, saliva, urine and faeces; (c) any compound derived from anything mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b); or (d) any thing which is claimed by any person, or which appears from an accompanying document, the packaging, a label or mark or from any other circumstances, to contain a part or derivative of wildlife;
The person in control or in charge of the conveyance shall, if required to do so by the enforcement officer—
conveyance
―conveyance‖ means any vehicle, vessel, ship, aircraft and any other mode of transport whether by air, sea or land;
stop the conveyance and allow the enforcement officer to search it; and
open all parts of the conveyance for search and take all measures necessary to enable or facilitate the carrying out of the search as the enforcement officer considers necessary.
The enforcement officer may, in the exercise of his powers under this section, if it is necessary so to do, detain any person found in the conveyance until the search has been completed.
Any person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding thirty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.