Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
“correct” in respect of Qur’anic Verses includes being complete and correctly arranged, not only in themselves but also in the context of the Qur’anic text in question as a whole; and “incorrect” and
“error” shall be construed accordingly;
“document” means any matter expressed, described, or howsoever represented, upon any substance, material, thing or article, including any matter embodied in a disc, tape, film, sound track or other device whatsoever, by means of—
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(a)
letters, figures, marks, symbols, signals, signs, or other forms of expression, description, or representation whatsoever;
(b)
any visual recording (whether of still or moving images);
(c)
any sound recording, or any electronic, magnetic, mechanical or other recording whatsoever and howsoever made, or any sounds, electronic impulses, or other data whatsoever;
(d)
a recording, or transmission, over a distance of any matter by any, or any combination, of the means mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or by more than one of the means mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b),
(c)
and (d), intended to be used or which may be used for the purpose of expressing, describing, or howsoever representing, that matter;
“Islamic Religious Council” means the authority, by whatever name called, established by or under any written law for the purpose, solely or besides other purposes, of advising the head of the religion of Islam in a State or Federal Territory in matters relating to the religion of Islam;
“Lembaga” means the Lembaga Pengawalan dan Pelesenan
Pencetakan Al-Qur’an established under subsection 3(1);
“licence” means a licence issued under section 5;
“Minister” and “Ministry” mean the Minister and Ministry responsible for the licensing of printing presses;
“Mufti” means an official appointed to act as a Mufti for any State or Federal Territory under any written law relating to the administration of Islamic law;
“printing” and expressions referring to printing include writing, lithography, typewriting, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words or objects in visible form;
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“Qur’anic material” means any document containing any Qur’anic
Verse, whether in Arabic writing or Braille, other than a “Qur’anic text’, as defined in this section;
“Qur’anic text” means any document containing the complete
Arabic text of the Qur’an or any part thereof, whether in Arabic writing or Braille, which contains one juzu’ or more with or without translation, or interpretation, as the case may be;
“Qur’anic Verse” includes any part of any Qur’anic Verse in
Arabic.
The Lembaga Pengawalan dan Pelesenan Pencetakan Al-Qur’an