Section 9. Offence relating to the use of certain words and expressions of Islamic origin. (CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPOGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1988

ENACTMENT No. 11 Of 1988
CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPOGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1988

PART II - OFFENCES

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 broadcast and which at the time of its making he knew or ought reasonably to have known would be published or broadcast, uses any of the words listed in the Schedule, or any of its derivatives or variations, to express or describe any fact, belief, idea, concept, act, activity, matter, or thing of or pertaining to any non-Islamic religion.

(2) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, and for a second or subsequent offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years.