ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1980 CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1980
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 been requested for by that other person himself.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than one year and not exceeding three years or to fine not exceeding fifteen thousand ringgit or to both.
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(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a publication sent or delivered to or at the address of a persons 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 sub-section (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 -
(a) an act that would constitute an offence under section 8 (1); or
(b) the delivery of any publication by the Postal Department.