The third edition of the Selangor Manual Guideline and Selangor State Planning Standard will be reviewed following news reports claiming that the guidelines recommended many new rules for new non-Muslim places of worship.

This includes a recommendation that non-Muslim places of worship should not be built within 50m of a home owned by Muslims and that planned new non-Muslim places of worship in areas with a multi-racial make up require the consent of residents within a 200m radius.

Other recommendations include height restrictions, that new non-Muslim places of worship must be lower than the nearest mosque, and that new non-Muslim places of worship cannot be built in commercial areas.

The third edition of the Selangor Manual Guideline and Selangor State Planning Standard can be purchased from the Selangor Town and Country Planning Department for RM200.

However, Selangor senior exco member Teng Chang Khim said the matter would be reviewed by the state's non-Muslim affairs committee, according to Sin Chew Daily.

He said that the manual was meant to serve as a guideline for Selangor's 12 local governments and that it was not enforceable. The manual was to be used from Jan 1 onwards.

Teng also assured that existing non-Muslim places of worship would not be affected by the manual.