ENACTMENT NO. 10 OF 1993 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1993
PART V - APPEAL AND REVISION CHAPTER XVII - APPEAL TO THE SYARIAH APPEAL COURT
Section 162. Point reserved on trial for Syariah Appeal Court.
(1) When any person has in a trial before the Syariah High Court in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction been convicted of an offence, the Judge may, if he thinks fit, reserve for the decision of the Syariah Appeal Court any question of law which has arisen in the course of the trial of that person and the determination of which would affect the event of the trial.
(2) The person so convinced shall thereupon be remanded to prison or, if the Judge thinks fit, be admitted to bail.
(3) The Syariah Appeal Court shall review the case, or such part of it as may be necessary, and finally determine the question and thereupon may alter the sentence passed and pass such sentence or give or makesuch judgment or order as the Syariah Appeal Court thinks fit.