ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1988
CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS TO MUSLIM ENACTMENT 1988



Section 9. Offence relating to the use of certain words and expressions of Islamic origin.

(1) A person commits an offence if he, in any published writing, or in any public speech or statement, or in any speech or statement addressed to an organised gathering of persons, or in any speech or statement which is published or broadcasted and which at the time of its making he knew, or ought reasonably to have known would be published or broadcated, uses any of the words listed in Part I of the Schedule, or any of its derivatives or variation, to express or describe any fact, belief, idea, concept, act, activity, matter, or thing of or pertaining to any non-Islamic religion.

(2) A person who is not a Muslim commits an offence if he, in the circumstances laid down in subsection 1, uses any of the expressions listed in Part II of the Schedule, except by way of quotation or reference.


(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is liable to a fine of one thousand ringgit.


(4) The State Authority may, by order Pllblished 'in the
Gazette, amend the Schedule.




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