Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Section 3 of the principal Act is amended—
(a)
in subsection (1)—
(i)
in paragraph (a), by deleting the words
“or against any Government”;
(ii)
by deleting paragraph (c);
(iii)
in paragraph (e)—
(A)
by substituting for the words “and hostility”
the words “, hostility or hatred”; and
(B)
by deleting the word “or” at the end of the paragraph; and
(iv)
by inserting after paragraph (e) the following paragraph:
“(ea) to promote feelings of ill will, hostility or hatred between persons or groups of persons on the ground of religion;
or”;
(b)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
in paragraph (b), by deleting the words “or in the administration of justice”; and
(ii)
by substituting for subparagraph (c)(ii) the following subparagraph:
“(ii) to point out, with a view to their removal, any matters producing or having a tendency to produce feelings of ill will, hostility or hatred—
(A)
between different races or classes of the population of
Malaysia; or
(B)
between persons or groups of persons on the ground of religion,”; and
Sedition (Amendment)
(c)
by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection:
“(3) For the purpose of proving the commission of any offence against this Act, the intention of the person charged at the time he did or attempted to do or made any preparation to do or conspired with any person to do any act or uttered any seditious words or printed, published or caused to be published, sold, offered for sale, distributed, reproduced or propagated any publication or did any other thing shall be deemed to be irrelevant if in fact the act had, or would, if done, have had, or the words, publication or thing had a seditious tendency.”.
Amendment of section 4