ENACTMENT NO. 11 OF 1981
CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS



Section 7. Offence of sending or delivering publications concerning any non-Islamic religion to a Muslim.


(1) A person commits an offence if he, from within the State sends or delivers or causes to be sent or delivered to another person who is a Muslim within or outside the State, or, from outside the State, send or causes to be sent or delivered to another person who is a Muslim within the State, any publication concerning any non-Islamic religion, or any advertising material for any such publication, which has not be requested for by that other person himself.

(2) A person who commits an offence uder subsection (1)
shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both and shall also be liable to whipping.

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(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a publication sent or delivered to or at the address of a person shall be held to be sent or delivered to that person.


(4) It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) that the accused had reason to believe, and did believe, that the person to whom the publication in question was sent or delivered was not a Muslim.


(5) It shall not be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) that the person to whom the publication in question was sent or delivered had made a request for it if the request had been prompted by the accused or by any person acting for the accused.


(6) Subsection (1) does not apply to-

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