Printing Presses and Publications 9 of any of the written laws specified in Schedule II shall be ordered to be forfeited by the court notwithstanding that no person is convicted of any offence. PART III PERMIT TO PUBLISH NEWSPAPER Offence to print, import, publish, etc., newspaper without permit 5. (1) No person shall print, import, publish, sell, circulate or distribute, or offer to publish, sell, circulate or distribute, any newspaper printed in Malaysia or Singapore unless there has been granted by the Minister in respect of such newspaper a permit under paragraph 6(1)(a) or (b). (2) Any person who— (a) prints any newspaper in respect of which a permit has not been granted or in respect of which a permit has been revoked or suspended; or (b) imports, publishes, sells, circulates or distributes, or offers to publish, sell, circulate or distribute, or has in his possession for any such purpose, any newspaper printed in Malaysia or Singapore in respect of which no permit has been granted or in respect of which a permit has been revoked or suspended, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to both. Grant of permit 6. (1) The Minister may grant— (a) to any person a permit to print and publish a newspaper in Malaysia; or