STATE ENACTMENT

KELANTAN - En. 11 of 1981

The Control and Restriction Of The Propagation Of Non-Islamic Religions Enactment 1981

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 an organized gathering of persons, or in any speech or statement which is published or broadcast and which at the 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 subsection (1), uses any of the expressions listed in Part If of the Schedule, except by way or quotation or reference.

(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) 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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(4) The Ruler in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

(SECTION 9)

PART I

WORDS WHICH ARE NOT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A NON-ISLAMIC RELIGION

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