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Section 4

False doctrine

of Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997

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Section 4
(1)

Any person who teaches or expounds in any place, whetherprivate or public, any doctrine or performs any ceremony or actrelating to the religion of Islam shall, if such doctrine or ceremonyor act is contrary to Islamic Law or any fatwa for the time beingin force in the Federal Territories, be guilty of an offence and shallon conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousandringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three yearsor to whipping not exceeding six strokes or to any combinationthereof.

(2)

The Court may order that any document or thing used in thecommission of or related to the offence referred to in subsection(1) be forfeited and destroyed, notwithstanding that no person mayhave been convicted of such offence.

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