ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 2001 SYARIAH COURT (TERENGGANU) ENACTMENT 2001
PART IV - MISCELLANEOUS
Section 22. Open court, etc.
(1) All trials in the Syariah Court shall, subject to any other written law and subsection (2), be open to the public.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a Court may order that the whole or any part of any proceeding before it be held in camera if it is satisfied that such order would be in the interest of justice and propriety.
(3) A court may at any time order that no person shall publish the name, address or photograph of any witness in any matter or proceeding or any part thereof tried or held or to be tried or held before it, or any evidence or any other thing likely to lead to the identification of any such witness; and any person who acts in contravention of any such order shall be guilty of an offences and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.