13. Application of Act to broadcasting
Feedback & supportThe provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to reports or matters broadcast by means of radio communication as part of any programme or service provided by means of a broadcasting station within Malaysia, and in relation to any broadcasting by means of radio communication of any such report or matter, as they apply in relation to reports and matters published in a newspaper and to publication in a newspaper.
newspaper
“newspaper” means any paper containing public news or observations thereon or consisting wholly or mainly of advertisements which is printed for sale and is published in Malaysia either periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding thirty-six days;
Subsection 10(2) shall have effect in relation to such broadcasting as if for the words “to insert in such newspaper”
words
“words” includes pictures, visual images, gestures and other methods of signifying meaning. Broadcast statements
there were substituted the words “to publish in the same manner”
and subsection 12(2) shall have effect in relation to any such broadcasting, as if for the words “in the newspaper in which” there were substituted the words “in the manner in which”.
In this section “broadcasting station” means any radio communication station in respect of which a licence granted under the *Telecommunications Act 1950, being a licence which (by whatever form of words) authorizes the use of the station for the purpose of providing broadcasting services for general reception.