Section 9

Where it appears to the Minister that such a course is expedient in the public interest, he may by warrant under his hand, require any person who owns or controls any telegraphic cable or wire or any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, used for the sending or receipt of messages to or from any place out of Brunei Darussalam, to produce to him, or to any person named in the warrant, the originals and transcripts, either of all messages, or of telegrams of any specified class or description, or of messages sent from or addressed to any specified person or place, sent or received to or from any place out of Brunei Darussalam by means of any such cable, wire or apparatus, and all other papers relating to any such messages.

Any person who, on being required to produce any such original or transcript or paper, refuses or neglects to do so, or mutilates or destroys the same, is guilty of an offence against this Act.

In this section, “message” has the same meaning as in the

Telecommunications Order, 2001 (S 38/01).

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Duty to give information.