ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993
PART VI - SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS CHAPTER XXII - SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EVIDENCE
Section 190. Reports of certain persons.
(1) Any document purpoting to be a report under the hand of any of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) upon any person, matter of thing examined or analysed by him or any document purpoting 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 witness -
(a) by the Court; or
(b) by the accused, in which case the accused shall give notice to the Syariah Prosecutor not less than three clear days before the commencement of the trial :
Provided that in any case in which the Syariah Prosecutor intends to give in evidence of 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 sections apply :
(a) officers of the Institute of Medical Research;
(b) Government Medical Officers;
(c) Chemists in the employment of any Government in Malaysia or of any foreign Government;
(d) any person appointed by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a Document Examiner;
(e) Inspector of Weights 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 Majlis, by notification in the Gazette, declares that the provisions of this section shall apply.
(3) The persons referred to in subsection (2) and the Registrar of Criminals are by this Enactment bound to state the truth in reports made under their hands.;