ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1988
REGISTRATION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS BILL 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 or by any other means, a Muslim for the purpose of subjecting the Muslim to any speech on or display of any matter concerning a non-Islamic religion.

(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) In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (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, telephone conversation, or by any other means it appears to be beyond reasonable doubt that such was the true purpose or one of the true purposes the accused, notwithstanding that, during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, or by any other means, matters or things other than those related to such purpose were also mentioned or done or matters or things related to such purpose were not mentioned or done as much as other matters.




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