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

PART II - OFFENCES



Section 6. Offence of approaching a Muslim to subject him to any speech on, or display of any matter concerning, a non-Islamic religion.

(1) A person commits an offence if he calls on, or arranges or contrives a meeting with, or contacts by telephone, another person who is a Muslim and to whom the person is a stranger, for the purpose of subjecting the other person to any speech on, or display of any matter concerning, a 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.

(3) In a prosecution for an offence under sub-section (1), the purpose of the accused calling on, or arranging or contriving a meeting with, or contacting, the other person shall be held to be that of subjecting him to any speech on, or display of any matter concerning, a non-Islamic religion if, viewing as a whole all that transpired during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, it appears to be beyond reasonable doubt that such was the true purpose or one of true purposes of the accused, notwithstanding that, during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, matters or things other than those related to such purpose were also mentioned or done or matter or things related to such purpose were not mentioned or done so much as other matters.

(4) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person with whom another person has not spoken, or has spoken only casually, previously, or a person with whom another person has had only business, official, or formal dealings previously, or a person who cannot be regarded even as an acquaintance of another person, shall be held to be a stranger to the other person.




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