ENACTMENT NO. 11 OF 2004 SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 2004
PART III - PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE CHAPTER 3 - EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
Section 117. Using as evidence of document production or which was refuse an notice
When a party refuses to produce a document which he has had notice to produce, he may not afterwards use the document as evidence without the consent of the other party or the order of the Court.
ILLUSTRATION A sues B on an agreement, and gives B notice to produce it. At the trial A calls forthe document, and B refuses to produce it.A gives secondary evidence of its contents. B seeks to produce the document itself to contradict the secondary evidence given by A, or in order to showthat the agreement is not stamped. He may not do so.