ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART VII - SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS CHAPTER 24 - SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EVIDENCE
Section 191. How previous conviction or acquittal may be proved.
(1) In any trial or other proceedings under this Code a previous conviction or acquittal may be proved in addition to any other mode provided by any law for the time being in force-
(a) by an extract certified under the hand of the officer responsible for the records of the court in any state in Malaysia in which such conviction or acquittal was decided; or
(b) in case of a conviction either by a certificate signed by the officer in charge of the prison in Malaysia in which the punishment or any part thereof was inflicted, or by production of the warrant of committment under which the punishment was suffered, together with, in each of such cases, evidence as to the identity of the accused with the person so convicted or acquitted.
(2) In case the officer in charge of any prison shall state in any certificate signed by him that the finger prints which appear on such certificate are those of the person to whom the certificate relates, such certificates shall be evidence of the fact so stated.
(3) Every Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be certificate of conviction and purporting to be signed by the officer in charge of any prison in Malaysia, and shall also presume that the officer by whom such document purports to be signed was when he signed it the officer in charge of the prison mentioned in such document.