ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART III - JUSTIFICATION OF OFFENCES CHAPTER 6 - INFORMATION TO THE RELIGIOUS ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND POWER TO INVESTIGATE
Section 62. Religious Enforcement Officer may require bond for appearance of complaint and witnesses.
(1) If upon an investigation made under this Chapter it appears to the officer making such investigation that there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of suspicion to justify the commencement or continuance of criminal proceedings against any person, such officer shall require the complalllant, If any, and so many of the persons who appear to such officer to be acquainted with the circumstances of the case, as he thinks necessary, to execute a bond to appear before a Syariah Court therein named and give evidence in the matter of the charge against the accused.
(2) The officer in whose presence the bond is executed shall send it to the Syariah Court.
(3) If any complainant or witness refuses to execute such bond such officer shall report the same to the Syariah Court which may thereupon in its discretion issue a summons or warrant to secure the attendance of such complainant' or witness before itself to give evidence in the matter of the charge against the accused.