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[Pt. VI-VII, S. 42-44]
42
Act 332

(2) Any person who acts as an agent for the purposes of subsection (1) shall be required to produce such authorization in writing.

(3) If the ownership of the copyright is claimed by a company or any other body of persons, the affidavit or statutory declaration shall be made by a responsible officer of the company or body of persons.

Penalty. 43. Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder for which no special penalty is provided, shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

Part VII
ENFORCEMENT

Entry by warrant or otherwise. 44. (1) In every case where information is given on oath to any magistrate that there is reasonable cause for suspecting that there is in any house or premises any infringing copy or any contrivance used or intended to be used for making infringing copies or capable of being used for the purpose of making infringing copies, or any other article, book or document by means of or in relation to which any offence under section 41 has been committed, he shall issue a warrant under his hand by virtue of which any Assistant Controller or police officer not below the rank of Inspector named or referred to in the warrant may enter the house or premises at any reasonable time by day or night and search for and seize any such copy, contrivance, article, book or document:

Provided that if an Assistant Controller or a police officer not below the rank of Inspector is satisfied upon information received that he has reasonable grounds for believing that by reason of delay in obtaining a search warrant, any copy, contrivance, article, book or document used to commit or to be used to commit an offence under this Act is likely to be removed or