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bruneilawsby aturio
In force2019 Revised Edition
Contents

Section 4

(1)

Subject to subsection (3), any person who —

(a)

does or attempts to do, or makes preparation to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act with a seditious intention;

(b)

utter any words with a seditious intention;

(c)

prints, publishes or causes to be published, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces any seditious publication;

(d)

imports or propagates any seditious publication, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years; such seditious publication shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs.

(2)

Any person who without lawful excuse has in his possession any seditious publication is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years; such publication shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs.

(3)

Whoever commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2)

involving a seditious intention under section 3(1)(a) or (f) relating to His

Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or Her Majesty Duli Raja Isteri is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than 3 years and not exceeding 15 years.

(4)

It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (2) that, if the person charged did not know that the publication was seditious when it came into his possession, he did, as soon as the nature of the publication became known to him, deliver the publication to the officer in charge of the nearest police station.

Read on from s 4A