Original Enactment


KEDAH

ENACTMENT No. 9 Of 1988
SYARIAH CRIMINAL CODE ENACTMENT 1988

Date of Royal Assent :16 October 1988
Date of publication in the Gazette :22 December 1988
Date of coming into operation :1 October 1988 [K.P.U. 13/88]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Preamble.

PART I - PRELIMINARY

Section 1. Short title and commencement.
Section 2. Interpretation.
Section 3. Application.
Section 4. Saving of prerogative.

PART II - OFFENCES

Section 5. Indecent acts.
Section 6. Utterance of indecent words.
Section 7. Pondan.
Section 8. Instigates married woman or man to be divorced or neglect duties and responsibilities.
Section 9. Khalwat.
Section 10. Incest.
Section 11. Zina.
Section 12. Muqaddimah zina.
Section 13. Abetment of the commission of the offence of Zina.
Section 14. Liwat.
Section 15. Musahaqah.
Section 16. Pregnancy outside marriage.
Section 17. Enticing other person's wife and preventing married couple from cobiting.
Section 18. Prostituting wife or child.
Section 19. Prostituting.
Section 20. Enticing a woman.
Section 21. Selling or giving away child.
Section 22. Becoming a munsyikari (pimp).
Section 23. Encouraging maksiat.
Section 24. Takfir.
Section 25. Intoxicating.
Section 26. Consuming and selling food in the month of Ramadan.
Section 27. Deriding Officers of the Majlis.
Section 28. Deriding or contempt of law.
Section 29. Abetment.
Section 30. Attempt.
Section 31. Contempt of Court.
Section 32. An order of His Royal Highness the Sultan.
Section 33. Public Authorities Protection 1948.
Section 34. Protection of certain officers.
Section 35. Repeal.

PART III - MISCELLANEOUS

Section 36. Giving false evidence.
Section 37. Punishment for false evidence.

SCHEDULE
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