ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1980
CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1980



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 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 that time of its making he knew or ought reasonably to have known would be published or broadcast, uses any of the words listed in Part I of 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) A person who is not a Muslim commits an offence if he, in the circumstances laid down in sub-section (1), uses any of the expressions listed in Part II of the Schedule, except by way of quotation or reference.

(3) A person who commits an offence under sub-sections (1) or (2) is liable to a fine of one thousand ringgit.

(4) The Ruler in Council may, by order publised in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.




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