My bookmarksSign up free
← Entertainments Duty Act 1953

Entertainments Duty Act 1953 s 15

Entertainments Duty Act 1953 s 15

s 15 Powers of arrest

(1) The Collector or any officer or person authorized to exercise the powers of entry or investigation under section 13 may arrest without warrant any person whom he reasonably suspects of committing or attempting to commit or employing, aiding or assisting any person to commit any offence under this Act and who refuses to furnish his name and address or who furnishes a name or address reasonably suspected of being false or who furnishes an address outside Malaysia or who is reasonably suspected of being likely to abscond: Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to affect the powers of a police officer under the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593]. (2) Every person so arrested shall be taken to a police station and shall thereafter be dealt with as if he had been arrested under section 24 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Read this section in the full act →

Find Act 103 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

What to look at next