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NO. 15 OF 2009
- picture or to surrender the film or picture to the police officer, CPIB officer, narcotics officer, intelligence officer or immigration officer, as the case may be;
- (b) without warrant, search any person whom he has reason to believe is in possession of a film or picture referred to in subsection (1);
- (c) without warrant, and with such assistance and by such force as is necessary, by night or by day, enter and search any place where he has reason to believe any film or picture referred to in subsection (1) is kept; or
- (d) without warrant, and with such assistance and by such force as is necessary, seize any film or picture referred to in subsection (1) and any copy thereof, and any equipment (including a handphone) used or about to be used in the making, exhibition or communication of the film or picture,
and take into custody any person reasonably believed to be in possession thereof.
(3) Any film, picture and any equipment (including a handphone) used in the making, exhibition or communication of the film or picture may be forfeited and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner may direct.
(4) Where a person to whom a direction under subsection (2)(a) is given fails to comply with the direction, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
(5) In this section—
- "cinematograph film" means the aggregate of visual images embodied in an article or a thing so as to be capable by the use of that article or thing—
- (a) of being shown as a moving picture; or
- (b) of being embodied in another article or thing by the use of which it can be so shown,
- and includes the aggregate of the sounds embodied in a sound-track associated with such visual images;
