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Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 s 16

Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 s 16

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s 16 Search warrant

(1) A Magistrate may issue a search warrant empowering a senior authorized officer to enter and search any premises where there is reasonably suspected to be found— (a) a printing press kept or used in contravention of section 3; (b) any newspaper printed or imported or published in contravention of section 5; or (c) any prohibited publication. (2) Whenever it appears to any senior authorized officer that there is reasonable ground to believe that there is concealed or deposited in any premises any prohibited publication, and that by reason of the delay in obtaining a search warrant the object of the search is likely to be frustrated, he may enter and search the premises as if he were empowered to do so by a warrant issued under subsection (1).

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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).

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