ENACTMENT NO. 5 OF 2006 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 2006
PART VI - OF APPEAL AND REVISION CHAPTER I - OF APPEALS TO THE SYARIAH HIGH COURT
Section 143. Procedure at hearing
(1) When the appeal comes on for hearing, the appellant shall be first heard in support of the appeal, the respondent shall be heard against it, and the appellant shall be entitled to reply.
(2) If the appellant does not appear to support his appeal, the Court may consider his appeal and may make such order thereon as it thinks fit:
Provided that the Court may refuse to consider the appeal or to make any such order in the case of an appellant who is out of the jurisdiction or who does not appear personally before the Court in pursuance of a condition upon which he was admitted to bail, except on such terms as it thinks fit to impose.