Communications and Multimedia (Amendment) Act 2025 · s 3

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s 3Amendment of section 16

Section 16 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

in subsection (1), by inserting after paragraph (h) the following paragraph:

“(ha) the procedures and all matters related to unsolicited commercial electronic messages;”;

(b)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

by substituting for the words “three hundred thousand” the words “one million”;

(ii)

by substituting for the words “three years”

the words “ten years”; and

(iii)

by substituting for the words “one thousand”

the words “one hundred thousand”; and

(c)

by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

“(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) and section 53, the regulations made under subsection (1), or any other subsidiary legislation made under this Act, may prescribe that the Commission may impose a financial penalty not exceeding one million ringgit for non-compliance of any direction issued under section 51.”.