ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993
PART VII CHAPTER XXVII - GENERAL
Section 219. Compensation where charge is groundless.
If any person causes a Religious Enforcement Officer or a Police Officer to arrest another person, and it appears to the Judge who takes cognisance of the case that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, the Judge may award such compensation, not exceeding five hundred ringgit, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to each person so arrested for his loss of time and any expenses incurred by him in the matter as the Judge shall think fit.