ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1988 REGISTRATION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS BILL 1988
PART II - OFFENCES
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 any public speech or statement, or in any speech or statement addressed to a gathering of persons, or in any such speech or statement which is published or broadcasted and which at the time of its making he knew or ought reasonably to have known would be publised or broadcasted, 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 subsection (1), uses any of the expressions listed in Part II of the Schedule, except by way of quotation or reference.
(3) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) 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.
(4) The Ruler in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.