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s 134 Penalty on refusing to answer questions or on giving false information
(1) Whoever, being required by this Act to give any information which may reasonably be required by a proper officer of customs and which it is in his power to give, refuses to give such information or furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to both.
(2) When any such information is proved to be untrue or incorrect in whole or in part it shall be no defence to allege that such information or any part thereof was furnished inadvertently or without criminal or fraudulent intent, or was misinterpreted or not fully interpreted by an interpreter provided by the informant.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Barangsiapa, yang dikehendaki oleh Akta ini Penalti untuk memberi apa-apa maklumat yang mungkin kerana palsu, apabıla disabitkan, boleh dipenjarakan selama tempoh tidak melebihi enam bulan atau didenda tidak melebihi satu ribu ringgit atau kedua-duanya.
(2) Jika apa-apa maklumat sedemikian dibuktikan sebagai tidak benar atau tidak betul pada keseluruhan untuk mengatakan bahawa maklumat itu atau manasengaja atau tanpa niat jenayah atau fraudan, atau salahteriemahkan atau tidak diteriemahkan denga epenuhnva oleh penteriemah yang disediakan ole informan itu.
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).
