Printing Presses and Publications 13 Suspension of publication 8C. (1) Pending the determination of any proceedings for the prosecution of a printer, publisher, editor or writer before any court for any offence in respect of anything published in any publication, it shall be lawful for the court upon the application of the Public Prosecutor to order the suspension of such publication. (2) Where an appeal has been lodged against the order of acquittal of any person charged with an offence in respect of anything published in any publication, it shall be lawful for the court which will hear the appeal, on application by the Public Prosecutor, to order a further suspension of such publication pending the final disposal of the appeal. (3) Any person who contravenes an order made under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to both. Undesirable publication may be refused importation 9. (1) Without prejudice to anything in this Act, the Minister may refuse the importation into Malaysia or withhold delivery or return to the sender thereof outside Malaysia any publication which he is satisfied contains any article, caricature, photograph, report, notes, writing, sound, music, statement or any other thing which is likely to be prejudicial to public order, morality, security, or which is likely to alarm public opinion, or which is likely to be contrary to any law or is otherwise prejudicial or is likely to be prejudicial to public interest or national interest. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may allow the importation or delivery of any publication after any part of the publication which he considers objectionable under any of the grounds specified in subsection (1) has been, to his satisfaction, obliterated, deleted, erased or removed. (3) (Deleted by Act A684).

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