ENACTMENT NO. 11 OF 2004 SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 2004
PART III - PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE CHAPTER 3 - EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
Section 99. Cross-examination as to previous statements in writing
(1) A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing, and relevant to matters in question in the suit or proceeding in which he is cross-examined, without the writing being shown to him or being proved, but if it is intended to contradict him by the writing, his attention must, before the writing can he proved, he called to those parts of it which are to be used for the purpose of contradicting him.
(2) If a witness, upon cross-examination as to a previous oral statement made by him relevant to matters in question in the suit or proceeding in which he is cross-examined and inconsistent with his present testimony, does not distinctly admit that he made such statement, proof may be given that he did in fact make it, but before may be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, shall he mentioned to the witness, and he shall he asked whether or not he wade such statement.