210. Opinion on category of service.
(1) A person may apply to the Commission to decide whether a content applications service is
considered a limited content applications service or whether the content is incidental content.
(2) The Commission shall provide its opinion within thirty days from the date of receipt of the
application.
(3) The Commission shall take into account any relevant Ministerial guidelines and any previous
opinions given under this Chapter before giving its opinion.
(4) The opinion shall be binding on the Commission and all affected parties for a period of three years
from the date that the opinion is provided under subsection (2).
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), the Commission may withdraw an opinion if it is satisfied that the
nature of the service has changed materially.
(6) The Commission shall maintain a register of opinions in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part V.
Chapter 2 - Content Requirements
211. Prohibition on provision of offensive content.
(1) No content applications service provider, or other person using a content applications service,
shall provide content which is indecent, obscene, false, menacing, or offensive in character with intent
to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to
a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to
both and shall also be liable to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day
during which the offence is continued after conviction.
212. Content forum.
The Commission may designate an industry body to be a content forum for the purposes of this Part.
213. Content code.
(1) A content code prepared by the content forum or the Commission shall include model procedures
for dealing with offensive or indecent content.
(2) The matters which the code may address may include, but are not limited to —
(a) the restrictions on the provision of unsuitable content;
(b) the methods of classifying content;
(c) the procedures for handling public complaints and for reporting information about
complaints to the Commission;
(d) the representation of Malaysian culture and national identity;