ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART V - OF APPEAL AND REVISION CHAPTER 18 - OF APPEALS TO THE SYARIAH APPEAL COURT
Section 159. Powers of Syariah Appeal Court.
At the hearing of an appeal the Syariah Appeal Court-
(a) shall hear the appellant or his peguam syarie if he appears and, if it thinks fit, the respondent or his peguam syarie, if he appears, and may hear the appellant or his peguam syarie in reply;
(b) may either confirm, reject, revoke or vary the decision of the trial Court, or may order a retrial or may remit the matter with the opinion of the Syariah Appeal Court thereon to the trial Court, or may make such other order in the matter as to it may seem just and may by order exercise any power which the trial Court might have exercised; and
(c) may, if it thinks that a different sentence should have been passed, quash the sentence passed by the trial Court and pass such other sentence warranted in law in substitution therefor as it thinks ought to have been passed.