The Online Safety Act 2025 (Act 866) came into force on 1 January 2026, with its Risk Mitigation and Child Protection Codes taking effect on 1 June 2026. This is a binding statutory instrument operating under the existing Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 architecture, not a gambling-specific law. It shifts responsibility for harmful online content onto licensed application and content service providers, giving the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission an adjacent regulatory lever over gambling-related digital content and promotion that operates independently of any dedicated gambling-law reform. For an operator, this means the Commission's toolkit against gambling-adjacent digital promotion has expanded even though no gambling-specific technical-compliance instrument itself changed, and intermediary and platform liability exposure connected to gambling content should be read against this now in-force framework rather than assumed unchanged.
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Malaysia · Question 08 of 11
Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?
Unfavourable · Confirmed · Not reviewed · Back to full Malaysia report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Malaysia (MY) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Unfavourable |
| Confidence | Confirmed |
| Review status | Not reviewed |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
The Online Safety Act 2025 (Act 866) came into force on 1 January 2026, with its Risk Mitigation and Child Protection Codes taking effect on 1 June 2026. This is a binding statutory instrument operating under the existing Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 architecture, not a gambling-specific l…