← Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994

Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 s 41

s 41 Entry into premises without search warrant and power of seizure

Where an officer is satisfied upon information received that he has reasonable grounds for believing that, by reason of delay in obtaining a search warrant, any article, thing, book, document, plant, substance, installation or part thereof in a place of work or residential place used to commit or intended to be used to commit an offence under this Act or any regulation made thereunder is likely to be removed or destroyed, he may enter the place of work or residential place without a warrant and seize or seal the article, thing, book, document, plant, substance, installation or part thereof found therein: Provided that it shall be an offence for a person without lawful authority to break, tamper with or damage the seal or remove the article, thing, book, document, plant, substance, installation or part thereof or to attempt so to do.

Malay text (authoritative)

Kemasukan ke dalam premis tanpa waran geledah dan kuasa untuk menyita

Jika seseorang pegawai berpuas hati berdasarkan maklumat yang diterima bahawa dia mempunyai alasan yang munasabah bagi mempercayai bahawa, oleh sebab kelengahan dalam mendapatkan waran geledah, apa-apa artikel, benda, buku, dokumen, loji, bahan, pepasangan atau bahagiannya dalam tempat kerja atau tempat kediaman yang digunakan untuk melakukan atau dicadangkan hendak digunakan untuk melakukan sesuatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini atau mana-mana peraturan yang dibuat di bawahnya mungkin akan dialihkan atau dimusnahkan, dia boleh memasuki tempat kerja atau tempat kediaman itu tanpa waran dan menyita atau mengelak artikel, benda, buku, dokumen, loji, bahan, pepasangan atau bahagiannya itu yang dijumpai dalamnya: Dengan syarat bahawa adalah menjadi suatu kesalahan jika seseorang tanpa kuasa yang sah memecahkan, mengganggu atau merosakkan lak sedemikian atau mengalihkan mana-mana artikel, benda, buku, dokumen, loji, bahan, pepasangan atau bahagian itu atau cuba berbuat demikian.

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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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