Enactment No. 3 Of 1996 SYARIAH CRIMINAL OFFENCES (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1996
PART II - OFFENCES RELATING TO AQIDAH
Section 4 .False doctrine.
(1) Any person who teaches or expounds in any place, whether private or public, any doctrine or performs any ceremony or act relating to the religion of Islam shall, if such doctrine or ceremony or act is contrary to Islamic Law or any fatwa for the time being in force in the State of Penang, be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to whipping not exceeding six strokes or to any combination theraof.
(2) The Court may order that any document or thing used in the commission of or related to the offence referred to in subsection (1) to be forfeited and destroyed notwithstanding that no person may have been convicted of such offence.