Undesirable Publications Act · 2010 Revised Edition
Section 16
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any order in force immediately before 1st December 1986, being the date of the commencement of this Act and made by —
His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council under section 3 of the repealed Undesirable Publications Enactment
(Chapter 25 of 1951); or
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the Minister* under order 3 of the Emergency (Control of
Publications) Orders, 1967 (E.12 of 1967), shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made by the
Minister* under section 3 and published in the Gazette on such commencement; and any publication affected by such order shall be deemed to be a prohibited publication for the purposes of this Act so long as such order continues in force as respects such publication.
publication
“publication” means any of the following other than a film — (a) any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form; (b) any sound recording; (c) any picture or drawing, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever; (d) any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide; or (e) any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing — (i) that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or (ii) on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation, and includes a copy of any publication;
* Transferred from the Mentri Besar to the Minister of Home Affairs with effect from 1st January 1984 — [S 10/84]
Terms defined in s 2
prohibited publication
Defined · s 2“prohibited publication” means any publication, the importation, sale or circulation of which has been prohibited under section 3;
publication
Defined · s 2“publication” means any of the following other than a film — (a) any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form; (b) any sound recording; (c) any picture or drawing, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever; (d) any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide; or (e) any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing — (i) that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or (ii) on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation, and includes a copy of any publication;