The law is stated as of Jan 15, 2010 The Law of Sedition relates to the uttering of the seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention. Sedition, whether by words spoken or written, or by conduct, is a misdemeanour at common law punishable by fine and imprisonment. The Sedition Act 1948 (Revised 1969) Act 15 provides vide Section 4 that any person found guilty of the offence of sedition “shall, on conviction, be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, and, for a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; and any seditious publication found in the possession of the person or used in evidence at his trial shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs”. Sedition: Cases and Materials is the first local publications to provide all relevant material on the law of sedition in a single volume and is divided into the following sections: Introduction Citator Statute Search Casebook Articles & Materials Words & Phrases The Sedition Act 1948 (Revised 1969) Act 15 The CASEBOOK section of this publication provides all major Malaysian authorities on the area of Sedition and further provides the complete citations of all three Malaysian law reports.