Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
(a)
prevention or treatment of the diseases and conditions of human beings as specified in the Schedule;
(b)
practising contraception among human beings;
(c)
improving the condition or functioning of the human kidney or heart, or improving the sexual function or sexual performance of human beings;
(d)
diagnosis of a disease as specified in the Schedule:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any advertisement published by the Federal Government or any State Government or any local or public authority, or by the governing body of a public hospital or by any person authorized to publish such advertisement by the Minister.
(1A)
The Minister may add to, delete from or amend the Schedule from time to time by order.
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(2)
In any proceedings for a contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that the advertisement to which the proceedings relate was published only so far as was reasonably necessary to bring it to the notice of persons of the following classes or of one or some of them, that is to say—
(a)
members of a local or public authority;
(b)
members of the governing body of a public hospital;
(c)
registered medical practitioners;
(d)
registered dentists;
(e)
registered nurses and midwives;
(f)
registered pharmacists, chemists and wholesalers and retailers of poisons licensed under the Poisons Act 1952, or the corresponding law in force in Sabah or Sarawak, as the case may be, to sell poisons listed in Part I of the
Poisons List;
(g)
persons undergoing training with a view to becoming registered medical practitioners, registered dentists, registered nurses or registered pharmacists or chemists.
Prohibition of advertisements relating to abortion