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Laws of Malaysia
Act 574
character, by virtue of being so appointed, established or
constituted, is not acceptable to such person, or should
not be accepted by any other person or persons, or
does not accord with or fulfil the requirements of that
religion, or is otherwise wrong or improper,
he shall be presumed to have contravened the provisions of
subsection (1) by having acted in a manner likely to cause
disharmony, disunity or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will, or
likely to prejudice the maintenance of harmony or unity, between
persons or groups of persons professing the religion referred to
in the allegation or imputation.
(4) (a) Where, on any ground of a religious character, any person
professing any particular religion uses for burial or cremation of
any human corpse a place other than one which is lawfully used
for such purpose by persons professing that religion, he shall be
presumed to have contravened the provisions of subsection (1)
by having acted in a manner likely to cause disharmony, disunity
or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will, or likely to prejudice the
maintenance of harmony or unity, between persons or groups of
persons professing that religion.
(b) Where any person, on any ground of a religious character,
counsels, advises, instigates, urges, pleads with, or appeals or
propagates to, or in any manner or by any means call upon, whether
directly or indirectly, any other person or persons professing any
particular religion—
(i) to use for burial or cremation of any human corpse a
place other than one which is lawfully used for such
purpose by persons professing that religion;
(ii) not to use for burial or cremation of any human corpse
any place which is lawfully used for such purpose by
persons professing that religion; or
(iii) not to use for worship any place which is lawfully used
for such purpose by persons professing that religion,
he shall be presumed to have contravened the provisions of
subsection (1) by having acted in a manner likely to cause
disharmony, disunity or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will, or
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