“bank” means a bank, a finance company, a merchant bank, or a discount house, licensed under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 [Act 372], or any other financial institution established or licensed under any other written law or any cooperative society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Co-operative Societies Act 1993;
“banker’s book” includes ledgers, day books, cash books, account books and all other books and documents used in the ordinary course of business of a bank;
“agent” means any person employed by or acting for another, and includes an officer of a public body or an officer serving in or under any public body, a trustee, an administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased person, a subcontractor, and any person employed by or acting for such trustee, administrator or executor, or subcontractor;
“property” means real or personal property of every description, including money, whether situated in Malaysia or elsewhere, whether tangible or intangible, and includes an interest in any such real or personal property;
“financial institution” means any person, which, in fact, lawfully or unlawfully, carries on any banking business or finance company business as defined in the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989;
“monetary instrument” means coin or currency of Malaysia or of any other country, travellers’ cheque, personal cheque, bank cheque, money order, investment security or negotiable instrument in bearer form or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery or upon delivery and endorsement;
“offence under this Act” includes a prescribed offence;
“prescribed offence” means—
- (a) any offence under any written law as specified in the Schedule;
- (b) an offence punishable under section 137 of the Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];
- (c) an offence under Part III of the Election Offences Act 1954 [Act 5];
