ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993
PART V - APPEAL AND REVISION CHAPTER XVII - APPEAL TO THE SYARIAH APPEAL COURT
Section 158. Powers of Syariah Appeal Court.
(1) At the hearing of an appeal, the Syarah Appeal Court shall bear the appellant or his Peguam Syarie if he appears and, if it thinks fit, the respondent or his Peguam Syarie in reply; and the Syariah Appeal Court may thereupon confirm, reverse or vary the decision of the trial Court, or may order a retrial or may remit the matter with the opinion of the Syariah Appeal Court thereon to the trial Court or may make such orther order in the matters as it may seem just, and may by that order exercise any power which the trial Court might have exercised.
(2) At the hearing of an appeal, The Syariah Appeal Court may, if it thinks that a different sentence should have been passed, quash the sentence passed by the trial Court and pass such other sentence warranted ib law (whether more or less servere) in substitution therefor as it thinks ought to have been passed.