Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Content Code, September 1, 2004

The Code was officially registered with the MMCC with effect from 1 September 1, 2004.

(1) Paragraph 6.4 Content Code states that apart from the relevant legislation under the CMA 1998, “all applicable Malaysian Laws including but not limited to sedition, pornography, defamation, protection of intellectual property and other related legislation are to be complied with.” 

(2) Paragraph 2.0 provides a definition of the innocent carrier concept, which corresponds to Sections 43B, C, D and E, in the sense that when code subjects provide access to any content but have neither control over the composition of such content nor any knowledge of such content they are deemed innocent carriers, therefore not responsible for the content provided. 

Nonetheless, this does not exempt such access providers from adhering to the General measures as outlined in Part 6.0 of this Part where it expressly applies to them.

(3) The obligations to remove or disable access to alleged infringing content after a notification are provided for four categories of code subjects, classified as Internet Access Service Provider (para 7.0), Content Aggregator (para 8.0), Link Provider (para 9.0) and Internet Content Hosting Provider (para 10).