ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1996 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1996
PART V - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS CHAPTER 5 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO TRIALS
Section 109. Detention of offenders attending in Court
(1) Any person attending a Court, although not under arrest or upon a summons, may be detained by such Court for the purpose of examination for any offence of which such Court can take cognizance and which, from the evidence, he may appear to have committed, and may be proceeded against as though he had been arrested or summoned.
(2) When the detention takes place after a trial has been begun, the proceedings in respect of such person shall be commenced fresh and the witnesses re-heard.