ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993
SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993

PART IV - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS
CHAPTER IX - THE CHARGE



Section 76. Form of charge.

(1) Every charge under this Enactment shall state the offence with which the accused is charged.

(2) If the law which creates the offence gives it any specific name, the offence may be described in the charge by that name only.

(3) If the law which creates the offence does not give it any specific name, so much of the definition of the offence must be stated as to give the accused notice of the matter with which he is charged.

(4) The law and section of the law against which the offence alleged to have been committed shall be mentioned in the charge.

(5) The fact that the charge is made equivalent to a statement that every legal condition required by law to constitute the offence charged was fulfilled in the particular case.




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