Penal Code
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Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority
of a public servant
185. Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority
of a public servant, as such, purchases or bids for any property
on account of any person, whether himself or any other, whom he
knows to be under a legal incapacity to purchase that property at
that sale, or bids for such property not intending to perform the
obligations under which he lays himself by such bidding, shall
be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
one month or with fine which may extend to four hundred ringgit
or with both.
Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions
186. Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in
the discharge of his public functions, shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with
fine which may extend to ten thousand ringgit or with both.
Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give
assistance
187. Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance
to any public servant in the execution of his public duty,
intentionally omits to give such assistance, shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with
fine which may extend to four hundred ringgit or with both; and
if such assistance is demanded of him by a public servant legally
competent to make such demand for the purposes of executing
any process lawfully issued by a Court, or of preventing the
commission of an offence, or of suppressing a riot or affray, or
of apprehending a person charged with or guilty of an offence,
or of having escaped from lawful custody, shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with
fine which may extend to one thousand ringgit or with both.
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