Financial Services Act 2013 s 248

s 248 Offences in relation to entries in documents

(1) No person shall— (a) make or cause to be made a false entry; (b) omit to make, or cause to be omitted, any entry; or (c) alter, extract, conceal or destroy, or cause to be altered, extracted, concealed or destroyed, any entry, in any book or record, or in any report, slip, statement or other document whatsoever, relating to the business, affairs, transactions, condition, property, assets, liabilities or accounts, of an authorized person, a registered person or an operator of a designated payment system. (2) No person shall evade the provisions of this Act by altering, forging, destroying, mutilating, defacing, concealing or removing any document. (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight years or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five million ringgit or to both.

Malay text (authoritative)

Kesalahan berhubungan dengan catatan dalam dokumen

(1) Tiada seorang pun boleh— (a) membuat atau menyebabkan dibuat suatu catatan palsu; (b) meninggalkan daripada membuat, atau menyebabkan ditinggalkan, apa-apa catatan; atau (c) mengubah, mencabutkan, menyembunyikan atau memusnahkan, atau menyebabkan untuk diubah, dicabut, disembunyikan atau dimusnahkan, apa-apa catatan, dalam apa-apa buku atau rekod, atau dalam apa-apa laporan, helaian kertas, penyata atau apa-apa jua pun dokumen lain, yang berhubungan dengan perniagaan, hal ehwal, transaksi, keadaan, harta, aset, liabiliti atau akaun, orang yang diberi kuasa, orang berdaftar atau pengendali sistem pembayaran yang ditetapkan. (2) Tiada seorang pun boleh mengelak daripada peruntukan Akta ini dengan mengubah, memalsukan, memusnahkan, mencacatkan, merosakkan, menyembunyikan atau mengalihkan apa-apa dokumen. (3) Mana-mana orang yang melanggar subseksyen (1) atau (2) melakukan suatu kesalahan dan boleh, apabila disabitkan, dipenjarakan selama tempoh tidak melebihi lapan tahun atau didenda tidak melebihi dua puluh lima juta ringgit atau keduaduanya.

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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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