ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1980 CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS ENACTMENT 1980
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, another person who, or contacts by telephone, another person who is a Muslim and to whom the person is a stranger, for the purpose of subjecting the other person to any speech on or display of any matter concerning a non-Islamic religion.
(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 twenty thounsand ringgit or to both.
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(3) In a prosecution for an offence under sub-section (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, or telephone conversating, it appears to be beyond reasonable doubt that such was the true purpose or one of the accused, notwithstanding that, during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, matters of 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 so much as other matters.
(4) For the purpose of subsection (1), a person with whom another person has not spoken, or has spoken only casually, previously, or a person with whom another person has had only business, official, or formal dealings previously, or a person who cannot be regarded even as an acquaintance of another person, shall be held to be a stranger to the other person.