Printing Presses and Publications
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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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