ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993
PART IV - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS CHAPTER XV - PREVIOUS ACQUITTALS OR CONVICTIONS
Section 130. Person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried again for same offence.
(1) A person who has been tried by a Court of competent jurisdiction for an offence and convicted or acquiited of such offence shall while such conviction or acquittal remains in force not be liable to be tried again for the same offence on the same facts or for any other offence for which a different charge from the one made against him might have been made under section 89 or for which he might have been convicted under section 90.
(2) A person acquitted or convicted of any offence may forwards be tried for any distinct offence for which a separate charge might have been made against him on the formal trial under section (1) of section 88.
(3) A person convicted of any offence constituted by any act rising consequences which, together with such act, constituted a different offence from that of which he was convicted may afterwards be tried for such last mentioned offence, if the consequnces did not happened or were not known to the Court to have happened at the time when he was convicted.
(4) A person acquitted or convicted of any offence constituted by any acts may, notwithstanding such acquittal or conviction, be subsequenly charged with and tried for any other offence constituted by the same acts which he may have committed, if the Court by which he was first tried was not ocompetent to try the offence with which he is subsequently charged.
(5) The dismissal of a complaint, or the discharge of the accused, is not an acquittal for the purpose of this section.