ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1988
REGISTRATION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS BILL 1988

PART II - OFFENCES



Section 7. Offence of sending or delivering publications concerning any non-Islamic religion to a Muslim.

(1) A person commits an offence if he, from within the State sends or delivers or causes to be sent or delivered to a Muslim within or outside the State, or, from outside the State, send or causes to be sent or delivered to a Muslim within the State, any publication concerning any non-Islamic religion, or any publicity material relating to such publication, which has no been requested for by that other person.

(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a publication or publicity material sent or delivered to or addressed to a person shall be held to be sent or delivered to that person.

(4) It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) that the accused, upon due inquiry, had reason to believe, and did believe, that the person to whom the publication or publicity material in question was sent or delivered was not a Muslim.

(5) It shall not be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) that the person to whom the publication or publicity material in question was sent or delivered had made a request for it if the request had been prompted by the accused or by any person acting on behalf of the accused.

(6) Subsection (1) does not apply to--





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