Section 157. Appeal no to operate as stay of execution. (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994

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 157. Appeal no to operate as stay of execution.

(1) Except in the cases mentioned in subsection (3) and section 156 no appeal shall operate as a stay of execution but the Syariah High Court or the Syariah Appeal Court may stay execution of any judgment, order, conviction, or sentence pending appeal on such terms as to security for the payment of any money or the performance or non-performance of any act or the suffering of any punishment ordered by or in the judgment, order, conviction, or sentence as to the Court may seem reasonable.

(2) If the sentence of imprisonment is confirmed, the time during which the execution of the sentence was stayed shall be excluded in computing the term of the sentence unless the Syariah Appeal Court otherwise orders.

(3) In the case of a conviction involving sentence of whipping-

(a) the sentence shall not be executed until after the expiration of the period prescribed in section 150, or allowed under section 155; and

(b) if notice under section 150 or application under section 155 is filed the sentence shall not be executed until after the determination of the appeal.