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28 Laws of Malaysia ACT 234

(4) Whenever it appears to any police officer not below the
rank of Sub-Inspector or to any senior officer of customs or to any
Drug Enforcement Officer that there is reasonable cause to believe
that in or on any premises there is concealed or deposited, in
contravention of this Act, any dangerous drug, syringe, pipe, lamp,
utensil or other article or any such book or document as is described
in subsection (1) and he has good grounds for believing that, by
reason of the delay in obtaining a search warrant, the object of the
search is likely to be frustrated, he may exercise in, upon and in
respect of such premises all the powers mentioned in subsection
(1), except, in the case of a Drug Enforcement Officer, the power
of arrest, in as full and ample a manner as if he were empowered
to do so by warrant issued under the said subsection.

(5) Any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector or
any senior officer of customs shall be entitled to exercise in, upon
and in respect of any ship, not being or having the status of a ship
of war, or any aircraft, islet, landing place or wharf or any warehouse
or place adjoining a wharf, and used in connection therewith, all
the powers mentioned in subsection (1) in as full and ample a
manner as if he were empowered to do so by warrant issued under
the said subsection.

(6) Any police officer or officer of customs may, for the purpose
of carrying out this Act, board any ship, not being or having the
status of a ship of war, or any aircraft and remain on board as long
as such ship or aircraft remains in Malaysia.

(7) Any box, chest, package or other article, which is being
landed or has been recently landed from any ship or which is in
or upon any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war),
aircraft, islet, landing place or wharf, or which is being removed
from any such ship, islet, landing place or wharf, or which is being
brought into, or has recently been brought into Malaysia, by land,
air or water, or is about to be taken out of Malaysia by land, air
or water—
(a) may be examined and searched by any officer of customs
and may be detained until any person in charge or possession
thereof has opened the same to admit of such examination
and search and in default of such opening may be removed
by such officer to a police station or to a customs office;