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s 37 No vessel unless exempted, to sail without port clearance
(1) No vessel, whether laden or in ballast or empty, not being a vessel to which the exemption under section 39 applies, shall depart or attempt to depart from any customs port until a port clearance in the prescribed form has been granted by the proper officer of customs to the master or to the agent of the vessel.
(2) If any such vessel, departs or attempts to depart from any customs port without such port clearance, the master of the vessel and also the owner and agent of the vessel, if a party or privy there to, shall be guilty of an offence, and the vessel, if still within the territorial waters, may be detained.
(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Tiada vesel, sama ada bermuatan atau dalam belayboleh balast atau kosong, yang bukan suatu vesel di mana tanpa pengecualian di bawah seksyen 39 terpakai, boleh pelapahan bertolak atau cuba untuk bertolak dari mana-mana melainkan pelabuhan kastam sehingga suatu pelepasan pelabuhan jika dikecualikan. dalam borang yang ditetapkan telah diberi oleh pegawai kastam yang hak kepada nakhoda atau ejen vesel itu. :
: [Bah. V, S. 37-38]
(2) Jika mana-mana vesel sedemikian, bertolak atau cuba untuk bertolak dari mana-mana pelabuhan kastam tanpa pelepasan pelabuhan tersebut, nakhoda vesel dan juga pemunya dan ejen vesel itu, jika menjadi suatu pihak atau privy kepadanya, adalah melakukan suatù kesalahan, dan vesel itu, jika masih berada dalam perairan wilayah, boleh ditahan.
(3) Mana-mana orang yang melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah seksyen ini, apabila disabitkan, boleh didenda tidak melebihi satu ribu ringgit.
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).
