Film Censorship Act 2002 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part III · Control of Films and Film-Publicity Materials
19. Submission of film-publicity material
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film-publicity material
“film-publicity material” includes the original or duplicate of the whole or any part of a picture, photograph, poster, figure, handbill, slide, newspaper advertisement and any other form of advertisement printed or recorded on any material and intended to publicise a film;
Sections 10 and 11 shall apply to any film-publicity material submitted to the Board for its approval as if for the word “film”
film
“film” includes the original or duplicate of the whole or any part of— (a) a cinematograph film; and (b) a videotape, diskette, laser disc, compact disc, hard disc and other record, of a sequence of visual images, being a record capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture, whether or not accompanied by sound;
in those sections the words “film-publicity material” had been substituted.
Any person who contravenes subsection 11(2) read together with subsection (2) of this section commits an offence.
A person who is convicted of an offence under this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit.