ENACTMENT No. 3 Of 1989 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1988
PART VI - SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS Chapter XXII - SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EVIDENCE
Section 179. Report of certain persons.
(1) Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of any of the persons mentioned in sub-section (2) of this section upon any person, matter or thing examined or analysed by him or any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the Registrar of Criminals upon any matter or thing relating to finger impressions submitted to him for report may be given in evidence in any trial or other proceeding under this Enactment unless such person or Registrar shall be required to attend as a witness-
(a) by the Court; or
(b) by the accused, in which case the accused shall give notice to the Pengarah Pendakwa not less than three clear days before the commencement of the trial:
Provided always that in any case in which the Pengarah Pendakwa intends to give in evidence any such report he shall deliver a copy thereof to the accused not less than ten clear days before the commencement of the trial.
(2) The following are persons to whom the provisions of this section apply:
(a) officers of the Institute for Medical Research;
(b) Government Medical Officers;
(c) Chemists in the employment of any Government in Malaysia;
(d) any person appointed by the Menteri Besar by notification in the Gazette, to be a Document Examiner;
(e) Inspector of weight and measures appointed as such under any written law relating to weights and measures in force in Malaysia; and
(f) any person or class of persons to whom the Menteri Besar by notification in the Gazette declares that the provisions of this section shall apply.
(3) The person referred to in sub-section (2) of this section and the Registrar of Criminals are by this Enactment bound to state the truth in reports made under their hands.