ENACTMENT NO. 8 OF 1982 THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM AND,
THE MALAY CUSTOM OF PAHANG ENACTMENT 1982
PART XII - GENERAL PROCEDURE
Section 239. Evidence.
(1) The Court shall observe all provisions of Hukum Syara' relating to the number, status or quality of witnesses or evidence required to prove any fact. Save as aforesaid, the Court shall have regard to the law of evidence for the time being applicable to the State and shall be guided by the principles thereof but shall not be obliged to apply the same strictly.
(2) The Court is authorized to administer oaths and affirmations. Evidence shall ordinarily be given on oath in a form binding upon Muslims but the Court may on special grounds dispense with an oath and take evidence on affirmation. An affirmation shall be in the form:
"I ……………….. do solemnly affirm that the evidence which I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Whether on oath or affirmation a witness shall be bound to state the truth.
(3) If in the opinion of the Court any witness has willfully given false evidence in any proceedings, the Court may report the matter to the Prosecuting Officer or may exercise all such powers as are by section 14 of the Oaths and Affirmations Act 1949, conferred upon a Magistrate of the First Class in a like case, subject to the restrictions and conditions prescribed by the said section. Any person sentenced under the provisions of this subsection shall have a right of appeal as if he had been sentenced under the said Act.