Malaysia legislation
Section 4
Section 4
The Code is amended by inserting after section 130j the following sections:
“Travelling to, through or from Malaysia for the commission of terrorist acts in foreign country 130ja. Whoever, whether or not a citizen or permanent resident of Malaysia, travels to, through or from Malaysia with intent to travel to a foreign country or any part of that foreign country, whether directly or through any other country or territory, for the purpose of the commission or the preparation for the commission of a terrorist act in a foreign country shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to thirty years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Possession, etc. of items associated with terrorist groups or terrorist acts 130jb. (1) Whoever—
(a)
has possession, custody or control of; or
(b)
provides, displays, distributes or sells, any item associated with any terrorist group or the commission of a terrorist act shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or with fine, and shall also be liable to forfeiture of any such item.
(2)
In this section—
“item” includes publications, visual recordings, flags, banners, emblems, insignia and any other thing displaying symbols associated with a terrorist group, terrorist act or ideology of a terrorist group;
“publications” includes all written, pictorial or printed matter, and everything of a nature similar to written or printed matter, whether or not containing any visible representation, or by its form, shape or in any other manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, or an audio recording and every copy, translation and reproduction or substantial translation or reproduction in part or in whole thereof.
Offence to build, etc. conveyance for use in terrorist acts 130jc. Whoever—
(a)
builds or agrees to build or causes to be built any conveyance with intent or knowledge or having reasonable grounds to believe that the conveyance will
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be employed in or by a terrorist group to further the activities of a terrorist group or to commit a terrorist act;
(b)
issues or delivers any commission for any conveyance with intent or knowledge or having reasonable grounds to believe that the conveyance will be employed in or by a terrorist group to further the activities of a terrorist group or to commit a terrorist act;
(c)
equips any conveyance with intent or knowledge or having reasonable grounds to believe that the conveyance will be employed in or by a terrorist group to further the activities of a terrorist group or to commit a terrorist act; or
(d)
dispatches or causes or allows to be dispatched any conveyance with intent or knowledge or having reasonable grounds to believe that the conveyance will be employed in or by a terrorist group to further the activities of a terrorist group or to commit a terrorist act, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty years, or with fine, and shall also be liable to forfeiture of any such conveyance.
Preparation of terrorist acts 130jd. (1) Whoever, with the intention of committing a terrorist act or assisting another to commit a terrorist act, engages in any conduct in preparation for giving effect to such intention shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(2)
For the purposes of subsection (1), it shall be irrelevant whether the intention and preparation relate to one or more particular terrorist act.”.
New section 130ta