Sedition (Amendment) 5 (c) by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection: “(3) For the purpose of proving the commission of any offence against this Act, the intention of the person charged at the time he did or attempted to do or made any preparation to do or conspired with any person to do any act or uttered any seditious words or printed, published or caused to be published, sold, offered for sale, distributed, reproduced or propagated any publication or did any other thing shall be deemed to be irrelevant if in fact the act had, or would, if done, have had, or the words, publication or thing had a seditious tendency.”. Amendment of section 4 4. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1)— (i) in paragraph (c), by inserting after the word “publishes” the words “or causes to be published”; (ii) in paragraph (d), by substituting for the word “imports” the word “propagates”; and (iii) by substituting for the words “for a first offence to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, and, for a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years” the words “to imprisonment for a term of not less than three years but not exceeding seven years”; and (b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection: “(1a) Any person who— (a) does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with