Malaysia legislation
Section 23
of Legislative Assembly Privileges Immunities And Powers Enactment 1963
Section 23
Any person who ―
(a)
assaults, obstructs or insults any member or officer in or going to or from the precincts of the Assembly on account of his position or conduct as such; or
(b)
assaults, interferes with, resists, obstructs, threatens or insults any officer while in the execution of his duty as such; or
(c)
unlawfully threatens or sends any threatening letter to a member, or challenges any member to a fight, on account of his conduct as a member; or
(d)
publishes, save by the general or special leave of the Assembly ―
(i)
a report of any proceedings of the Assembly or any committee when such proceedings have not been held in public;
(ii)
any paper, report or other document prepared expressly for submission to the Assembly before the same has been laid on the Table of the
Assembly; or
(iii)
the report of any committee, or any extract therefrom, before such report has been presented to the Assembly; or
(e)
publishes any statement, whether in writing or otherwise ―
(i)
which falsely or scandalously defames, or which reflects on the character
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of, any member touching on his conduct in the Assembly or anything done or said by him in the Assembly;
(ii)
which falsely or scandalously defames the proceedings or the character of the Assembly; or
(f)
wilfully publishes any false or perverted report or any writing containing a gross or scandalous misrepresentation of any debate or proceedings of the Assembly;
or
(g)
creates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the Assembly while it is sitting, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for twelve months and a fine of two thousand ringgit.