ENACTMENT NO. 9 OF 2004
SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 2004

PART V – PROCEEDINGS AND PROSECUTIONS
Chapter 9 - Of Suspensions, Remissions and Commutations of Sentences



Section 132. Power to suspend or remit sentences

(1) When any person has been sentenced for an offence, Yang di-­Pertua Negeri on the advice of the Mufti may at any time, without conditions, or with such conditions which the person sentenced accepts, suspend or remit the whole or any part of the sentence.

(2) Whenever an application is made to Yang di-Pertua Negeri for the suspension or remission of a sentence, Yang di-Pertua Negeri may require the convicting Judge to state his opinion as to whether the application should be granted or refused and such Judge shall state his opinion accordingly.

(3) If any condition on which a sentence has been suspended or remitted is, in the opinion of Yang di-Pertua Negeri, not fulfilled, Yang di-Pertua Negeri may cancel such suspension or remission; whereupon the person in whose favour the sentence has been suspended or remitted may, if at large, be arrested by any Police Officer or Religious Enforcement Officer without warrant and remanded by a Judge to undergo the unexpired portion of the sentence.




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