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(1) Any person who wilfully so tampers with or adjusts any installation or part thereof or manufactures or imports or sells any equipment as to cause or to be likely to cause danger to human life or limb or injury › any equipment or other property shail be guilty . n offence and for each such offence shall, on convi tion, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceedin five years. omission in respect in any installation or equipment or ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both. (3) Any person who in any manner dishonestly- (i) abstracts energy; (il) consumes energy; (ii1) uses energy; (iv) alters the index of any meter or other instrunent used on or in connection with any supp! uthority installation or any licensed installa tion for recording the output or consumption oi energy; or (v) prevents any such meter or instrument from duly recording the output or consumption of energy, ding the I by the decide: owances ing him. with or ifactures or to be or injury guilty of i convichousand xceeding nt act or rment or injury to ence and xceeding r a term estlyer instruly supp!. installa sumption ent from aption of inviction, : relevant srities. [Pt. VIII, S. 26] (4) Any person who, in contravention of section 7 uses, works or operates, or permits to be used, worked or operated any installation shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit and to a further fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (5) Any person who, in contravention of section 7 supplies energy from an installation to or for the use ot any person shall be guilty of an oftence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit, and to a further fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit for every day or a day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. any supply line or constructs any electrical works outguilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit, and any such unauthorised line or works may, atter conviction, be removed by order of the Director General, and if such order is not complied with, reasonable cost of such removal may be recovered from the licensee. (7) Any_licensee failing without lawful excuse to comply with any term and condition expressed in the licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit and, to a further fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (8) Any person who in contravention of section 19 fails or neglects to register an installation shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit and a further fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (9) Any person who, without due authority in tha ehalf wilfully extinguishes or damages anv bubli lamp or wilfully damages or defaces any post, bracket or other means of support of a public lamp shall be [Pt. VIlI, S. 26] guilty of an oftence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. (10) Any person who without lawful consent, affixes or causes to be affixed any advertisement, bill or notice or any paper against or upon, or otherwise defaces any bullding, post or bracket or other equipment or the enclosure thereot usea tor or in connection with any public installation shall be guilty of an offence anc shal, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit. (11) Any person who wilfully or negligently— (a) causes energy to be diverted from its proper course to be wasted; or (b) breaks, throws down, causes to fall or damages any installation or post, pole, or other equipment, any installation or any part thereof as the case may be connected with supply of energy, shall be guilty ot an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. (12) (a) No person shall, without lawful authority undertake any work or engage in any activity in the vicinity of any electrical installation or part thereof in a manner likely to intertere with any electrical instaliation or to cause danger to any person or property. (b) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. (13) (a) No person shall install any electrical wiring or extension to existing wiring on premises without first obtaining the approval in writing from a supply authority or licensee. . (b) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and, on conviction, be liable to i ine nnot exceeding three thousand ringgit or to im prisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. be liable or to an rear or to ut, affixes or notice Taces any It or the with any ence and exceeding is proper damages juipment, the case "gy, inviction, d ringgit one year tuthority y in the nereof in installaerty. shall be ıble to a or to :ar or to il wiring without 1 supply shall be ble to a to Imir or to [Pt. VIII, S. 26-27] BLECTRICAL INSPECTORATE (14) Any person guilty of an offence against this 'Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall, on liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues atter conviction. (15) Whenever any agent or servant in the course of his employment does or omits to do an act the doing of which or omission to do which by his principal or employer would be an offence against this Act, such agent or servant shall be guilty of that offence, and his principal or employer and any person at the time of the act or omission was in charge of the business in respect of which the act or omission occurred shall be guilty of that offence unless the principal or employer or other person, as the case may be, proves to the satistaction of the court that he took all reasonable means and precautions to prevent the act or omission.