Film Censorship Act 2002 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part III · Control of Films and Film-Publicity Materials
20. Mark of approval on film-publicity material
Feedback & supportThe Board shall affix its mark of approval on any film-publicity material which has been approved by the Board or which has been altered as required by the Board.
Where multiple copies of any film-publicity material are submitted for the Board’s approval, the Board shall affix its mark of approval on the first copy only and duplicate copies may be made of such first copy.
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;
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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;
Any person who exhibits any film-publicity material or any duplicate copy of such material without displaying the Board’s mark of approval in respect of such material commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit.