ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993
SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993

PART III - INFORMATION TO RELIGIOUS ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AND THEIR POWER TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER VI



Section 62. Religious Enforcement Officer may require bond for appearnce of complainant and witness.

(1) If upon an investigation made under this Chapter it appears to the officer making such investigation that there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground to justify the commencement or continuance of criminal proceedings against any person, such officer shall require the complainant, if any, and so many of the persons who appear to such officer to be acquainted with the circumstances of the case, as he thinks necessary, to execute a bond to appear before a Court therein named and give evidence in the matter of the charge against the accused.

(2) The officer in whose presence the bond is executed shall send it to the Court.

(3) If any complainant or witness refuses to execute such bond, such officer shall report the same to the Court which may thereupon in its discretion issue a summon or warrant to secure the attendance of such complainant or witness before itself to give evidence in the matter of the charge against the accused.




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